Famous Jews Interactive

Jewish Post-Biblical Religious Leaders

[334] Menachem Mendel Schneerson -- The Lubavitch Rebbe
[105] Moses Maimonides -- Greatest Medieval Jewish Philosopher and Scholar
[49] Rashi -- the king of Jewish bible commentators
[40] Abraham Joshua Heschel -- renowned theologian, educator, philosopher and author
[40] Joseph Caro -- Jurist and mystic, dreamer and doer, b. 1488, Spain
[24] Seymour L. Essrog -- 48th President of Rabbinical Assembly, and Rabbi of Adat Chaim
[36] Martin Buber -- A Jewish theologian, Biblical translator, and writer
[29] Samson Raphael Hirsch -- Founder Modern Orthodoxy 19th century Germany - Rabbi Author Educator
[28] Judah ha-Nasi -- (AD 135?-220?) Collected Jewish Oral Law into the Mishna
[17] Avraham Itzjak Kook -- The first Rabbi of Israel. The great soul of religious Zionism.
[24] Elijah Vilna -- (Vilna Gaon) The last theologian of classical rabbinism
[16] Lajos Venetianer -- famous Hungarian rabbi and historian
[20] Leo Baeck -- Jewish theologian and author: Essence of Judaism (1905), This People Israel (1955)
[17] John Hyrcanus I -- (died 105? BC), high preist of the Jews and a Maccabbee
[15] Sir Hermann Gollancz -- English rabbi and authority on Hebrew language and literature, 1852-1930
[14] Menasseh ben Israel -- Rabbi, Talmudic scholar and activist for Jewish Emancipation (1604-1657)
[14] Maximilian Heller -- New Orleans rabbi, reformist and labor Zionist (1860 - 1929)
[14] Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayumi -- Jewish scholar and author, 882-942, head of the great Jewish Academy at Sura, Babylonia
[] Sherwin Wine -- Rabbi, Founder of Secular Humanistic Judaism