Famous Jews Interactive

Jewish Grassroots Activists and Revolutionaries

[113] Karl Marx -- Founder of Communism. Wrote seminal works: Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.
[74] Allard Lowenstein -- 'helped to shape a great deal of [U.S.] history in the years since World War II'
[33] Haym Salomon -- Patriot, spy, and financier of the American Revolution
[56] Leon Trotsky -- 1879-1940, Russian Communist revolutionary
[45] Meir Kahane -- founder the militant Jewish Defense League
[34] Allen Ginsberg -- Poet laureate of the Beat Generation
[28] Emma Goldman -- Feminist and Anarchist, 1869 - 1940
[12] Jerry Rubin -- perhaps the most outlandish figure to ever defended American civil liberties
[20] Saul Alinsky -- Civil rights activist, author, and founder of the 'Back of the Yards' Org.
[16] David Dubinsky -- U.S. labor leader: International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, AFL-CIO
[16] Samuel Gompers -- (1850-1924). The first great labor leader in America
[13] Mike Davidow -- working class journalist and lifelong Communist
[13] Naomi Wolf -- Feminist writer and activist
[8] Betty Friedan -- most influential feminist of the postwar era
[10] Solomon Etting -- Fought for Jewish rights in early America
[8] Camillo Berneri -- Anarchist who wrote 'The Anti-Semitic Jew'
[8] Alice Miller -- Activist against corporal punishment
[8] Eve Fertig -- One of the pioneers of Wildlife Rehabilitation
[7] Alexander Mutnick -- head of the Bund foreign committee