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Writer: Robert
Silverberg, science fiction author, Isaac
Bashevis Singer, Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize
(1978), Susan
Sontag, essayist & novelist, Danielle
Steele, romance novelist (Jewish father),Gertrude
Stein, writer, poet & playwright, Joel Stein,
columnist, George
Steiner, literary critic, Jacqueline
Susann, novelist, Studs
Terkel, author & oral historian, Alice
B. Toklas, literary figure, Lionel
Trilling, literary critic, Scott Turow,
mystery writer, Harry
Turtledove, science fiction writer, Leon Uris,
novelist, Irving
Wallace, novelist, Nathanael
West, writer, Elie Wiesel,
writer & Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize (1986), Herman Wouk,
author, Elizabeth
Wurtzel, author
Social laeders: Saul
Alinsky, social organizer, Daniel
De Leon, socialist leader, David
Dubinsky, labor leader, Emma
Goldman, anarchist leader, Samuel
Gompers, labor leader, Sidney
Hillman, labor leader, Abbie
Hoffman, social activist, Yippie, Jackie
Presser, labor leader, racketeer, Jerry Rubin,
social activist, Yippie . Anti-racism: Abraham
Foxman, head of the ADL , Kivie
Kaplan, head of the NAACP,
Winona
LaDuke, Native American acitivst &
environmentalist (Jewish mother), Stanley
Levison, advisor of Martin
Luther King, Abel
Meeropol, composer of Strange
Fruit, Michael
Schwerner & Andrew
Goodman, CORE
activists, KKK victims, Joel
& Arthur
Spingarn, early NAACP leaders, Helen
Suzman, South African anti-apartheid activist, Simon
Wiesenthal, Nazi-hunter, Tim Wise,
anti-racism activist, Bella Abzug,
feminist politician, Gloria
Allred, feminist lawyer, Andrea
Dworkin, feminist writer, Susan
Faludi, feminist writer, Betty
Friedan, co-founder & first president of NOW, Harvey Milk,
murdered gay rights activist & openly-gay politician, Robin
Morgan, editor of Ms.
Magazine, Ernestine
Rose, feminist, Gloria
Steinem, founder of Ms. Magazine (Jewish father), Rebecca
Walker, feminist writer (Jewish father), Naomi Wolf,
feminist writer
Alan Berg,
murdered radio host, Nick Berg,
beheaded entrepreneur, Josephine
Earp, wife of Wyatt Earp, Leo Frank,
lynching victim, Jeremy Glick (1),
September 11 victim (UA flight 93), Jeremy
Glick (2), activist & son of September 11
victim (WTC), Ronald
Goldman, murdered friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, Meir Kahane,
orthodox rabbi, Anton LaVey,
founder of the Church
of Satan, Jonathan
Levin, teacher son of executive Gerald Levin;
tortured and killed by a student, Chandra
Levy, disappeared intern, Monica
Lewinsky, sex scandal intern, Joshua
A. Norton, eccentric & self-proclaimed emperor, Daniel
Pearl, beheaded journalist, Judith
Resnik, Space Shuttle Challenger victim, Mickey
Schwerner & Andrew
Goodman, KKK victims, William
James Sidis, child prodigy, Nancy
Spungen, murdered girlfriend of Sid Vicious
Criminals:Lori
Berenson, activist convicted of terrorism in Peru, David
Berkowitz, Son of Sam, serial killer (adopted by
Italian father & Jewish mother, raised Catholic), Otto Berman,
gangster, Louis
Buchalter, gangster, Samuel Byck,
failed assassin of Richard
Nixon, Benny Fein,
gangster, Heidi
Fleiss, Hollywood Madam,
Mickey
Cohen, gangster, Frank
Collin, neo-nazi,
Maxie Eisen,
gangster, Waxey
Gordon, gangster, Jake Guzik,
gangster, Nathan
Kaplan, gangster, Dylan
Klebold, Columbine massacre (Jewish maternal
grandfather, raised Lutheran), Abe Landau,
gangster, Meyer
Lansky, gangster, Jean
Lafitte, pirate ('part-Jewish'), Nathan
Leopold, Jr. and Richard
Loeb, murderers, Kevin
Mitnick, hacker, Sara
Jane Moore, failed assassin of Gerald Ford,
Willie
Moretti, gangster, Jacob Orgen,
gangster, Jonathan
Pollard, jailed spy, Abe Reles,
gangster, Ethel
& Julius
Rosenberg, executed spies, Louis
Rosenberg, gangster, Joseph
Rosenzweig, gangster, Lou
Rothkopf, gangster, Arnold
Rothstein, gangster, Jack Ruby,
killer of Lee
Harvey Oswald, Joe Saltis,
gangster, Dutch
Schultz, gangster, Bugsy
Siegel, gangster, 'father of Las Vegas'
, Johnny
Spanish, gangster, Harry
Strauss, gangster, Albert
Tannenbaum, gangster, Adam Worth,
Victorian
thief, model for Moriarty , Jack Zuta,
gangster, Abner
Zwillman, gangster