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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naomi Klein | Naomi A. Klein | 1970 | n/a | Canadian | author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism, organized labour, left-wing politics and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, ecofascism and capitalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein |
| Abbie Hoffman | Abbot Howard ″Abbie″ Hoffman | 1936 | 1989 | American | political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman |
| Langston Hughes | James Mercer Langston Hughes | 1901 | 1967 | American | poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes |
| Bella Abzug | Bella Savitzky Abzug | 1920 | 1998 | American | lawyer, U.S. Representative, social activist and a leader in the women's movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Abzug |
| Jerry Rubin | Jerry Clyde Rubin | 1938 | 1994 | American | social activist, anti-war leader, and counterculture icon during the 1960s and 1970s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rubin |
| Bernie Farber | Bernie M. Farber | 1951 | n/a | null | writer, commentator, and the former chief executive officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress and a social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Farber |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti | 1919 | 2021 | American | poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti |
| Mia Kirshner | Mia Kirshner | 1975 | n/a | Canadian | actress, writer and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Kirshner |
| Lewis Charles Levin | Lewis Charles Levin | 1808 | 1860 | American | politician, Know Nothing, and anti-Catholic social activist of the 1840s and 1850s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Charles_Levin |
| Leo Kanner | Leo Kanner | 1894 | 1981 | Austrian | psychiatrist, physician, and social activist best known for his work related to autism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kanner |
| Marek Edelman | Marek Edelman | 1919 | 1922 | Polish | political and social activist and cardiologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Edelman |
| Shlomo Bar | Shlomo Bar | 1943 | n/a | Israeli | musician, composer, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Bar |
| Pieter-Dirk Uys | Pieter-Dirk Uys | 1945 | n/a | South African | performer, author, satirist, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter-Dirk_Uys |
| Ya'akov Hazan | Ya'akov Hazan | 1899 | 1992 | Israeli | politician and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya'akov_Hazan |
| Louise Noun | Louise Frankel Rosenfield Noun | 1908 | 2002 | null | feminist, social activist, philanthropist, and civil libertarian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Noun |
| Michele Landsberg | Michele Landsberg OC | 1939 | n/a | Canadian | journalist, author, public speaker, feminist and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Landsberg |
| Jean Baker Miller | Jean Baker Miller | 1927 | 2006 | null | psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, social activist, feminist, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baker_Miller |
| Jack Hirschman | Jack Hirschman | 1933 | 2021 | American | poet and social activist who wrote more than 100 volumes of poetry and essays | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hirschman |
| Henry Foner | Henry Joseph Foner | 1919 | 2017 | null | 20th-century Jewish-American social activist and president for more than two decades of the Joint Board, Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union (FLM) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Foner |
| Letty Cottin Pogrebin | Letty Cottin Pogrebin | 1939 | n/a | American | author, journalist, lecturer, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letty_Cottin_Pogrebin |
| Daphni Leef | Daphni Leef | 1986 | n/a | Israeli | social activist, video artist, and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphni_Leef |
| Selma James | Selma James | 1930 | n/a | American | writer, and feminist and social activist who is co-author of the women's movement book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (with Mariarosa Dalla Costa), co-founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and coordinator of the Global Women's Strike | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_James |
| Eddie Tabash | Edward Tabash | null | null | American | lawyer and political and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Tabash |
| Sharon Nazarian | Dr. Sharon Nazarian | null | null | Iranian | social activist, academic and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Nazarian |
| Abraham Osheroff | Abraham Osheroff | 1915 | 2008 | American | social activist, carpenter, war veteran, documentary filmmaker, and lecturer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Osheroff |
| Nina Salaman | Pauline Ruth "Nina" Salaman | 1877 | 1925 | British | Jewish poet, translator, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Salaman |
| Gaby Lasky | Gavriela "Gaby" Schutz Lasky | null | null | Israeli | politician, attorney, feminist, human rights activist, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaby_Lasky |
| Meir Ya'ari | Meir Ya'ari | 1897 | 1987 | Israeli | politician, educator and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Ya'ari |
| Michael G. Rubin | Michael G. Rubin | 1972 | n/a | American | businessman, philanthropist and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_G._Rubin |
| Ruth Dayan | Ruth Dayan | 1917 | 2021 | Israeli | social activist who was the founder of the Maskit fashion house | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Dayan |
| Jacqueline Steiner | Jacqueline Steiner | 1924 | 2019 | American | folk singer, songwriter and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Steiner |
| Sergio Bergman | Sergio Bergman | null | null | Argentine | rabbi, politician, pharmacist, writer, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Bergman |
| Berek Lajcher | Berek Lajcher | 1893 | 1943 | null | Jewish physician and social activist from Wyszków before the Holocaust in Poland, remembered for his leadership in the prisoner uprising at Treblinka extermination camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berek_Lajcher |
| Anton Nossik | Anton Borisovich Nossik | 1966 | 2017 | Russian | journalist, social activist and blogger (10th place in RuNet according to Yandex | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Nossik |
| Saadia Marciano | Saadia Marciano | 1950 | 2007 | Israeli | social activist and politician, and founder of the Israeli Black Panthers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadia_Marciano |
| Omer Yankelevich | Omer Yankelevich | 1978 | n/a | Israeli | attorney, educator, social activist, and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omer_Yankelevich |
| Jack Nusan Porter | Jack Nusan Porter | null | null | American | writer, sociologist, human rights and social activist, and former treasurer and vice-president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nusan_Porter |
| Léa Roback | Léa Roback | 1903 | 2000 | Canadian | trade union organizer, social activist, pacifist, and feminist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léa_Roback |
| Charlie Biton | Charlie-Shalom Biton | 1947 | n/a | Israeli | social activist and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Hadash and the Black Panthers between 1977 and 1992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Biton |
| Zhanna Nemtsova | Zhanna Borisovna Nemtsova | 1984 | n/a | Russian | journalist and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhanna_Nemtsova |
| Arlyn Phoenix | Arlyn Sharon Phoenix | 1944 | n/a | American | social activist and mother of actors River, Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, and Summer Phoenix | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlyn_Phoenix |
| Uzzi Ornan | Uzzi Ornan | 259 | n/a | Israeli | linguist and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzzi_Ornan |
| Lasha Zhvania | Lasha Zhvania | 1973 | n/a | Georgian | politician, diplomat, businessman, and social activist who currently serves as Head of the Presidential Administration of Georgia for the country's fifth president, Salome Zourabichvili | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasha_Zhvania |
| Lev Rubinstein | Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein | null | null | Russian | poet, essayist, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Rubinstein |
| Adina Bar-Shalom | Adina Bar-Shalom | 1945 | n/a | Israeli | educator, columnist, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adina_Bar-Shalom |
| Albert Jean Amateau | Albert Jean Amateau | 1889 | 1996 | Turkish | rabbi, businessman, lawyer, social activist, and denier of the Armenian genocide | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Jean_Amateau |
| Levi Olan | Levi Arthur Olan | 1903 | 1984 | American | Reform Jewish rabbi, liberal social activist, author, and professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Olan |
| Rolf Cahn | Rolf Cahn | 1924 | 1994 | American | folk musician, martial arts teacher, author, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Cahn |
| Gertrude Weil | Gertrude Weil | 1879 | 1971 | American | social activist involved in a wide range of progressive/leftist and often controversial causes, including women's suffrage, labor reform and civil rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Weil |
| Shelley Rubin | Shelley Rubin | null | null | American | social activist and the widow of JDL International Chairman Irv Rubin, and is currently the chairman and CEO of the USA-based, Kahanist, Jewish Defense League, a group which was classified as "a right-wing terrorist group" by the FBI in 2001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Rubin |
| Louis Abolafia | Louis Abolafia | 1941 | 1995 | null | artist, social activist, and folk figure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Abolafia |
| Reuven Gal | Reuven Gal | 1942 | n/a | Israeli | social and clinical psychologist, a social activist and entrepreneur, researcher, author and consultant in the field of behavioral, communal and social sciences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Gal |
| Albert Salomon (musician) | Albert Salomon | 1935 | 2020 | Bulgarian | accordion player and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Salomon_(musician) |
| Martha Goldberg | Martha Goldberg, née Sussmann | 1873 | 1938 | German | woman and social activist, and one of five Jewish victims murdered by National Socialists in Bremen and the surrounding area during Reichspogromnacht | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Goldberg |
| Naomi Silverman Cohn | Naomi Silverman Cohn | 1888 | 1982 | American | social activist and government worker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Silverman_Cohn |
| Adi Koll | Adi Koll | 1976 | n/a | Israeli | social activist and former politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Koll |
| Viktor Bely | Viktor Arkadyevich Bely | 1904 | 1983 | Soviet | composer and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Bely |
| Madeline Lee (actress) | Madeline Lee Gilford | 1923 | 2008 | American | film and stage actress and social activist, who later enjoyed a career as a theatrical producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_Lee_(actress) |
| Dorothy Stein | Dorothy Josephine Del Bourgo Kellogg Stein | 1931 | 2019 | null | early computer programmer, psychologist, author and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Stein |
| Johanna Goldschmidt | Johanna Goldschmidt | 1807 | 1884 | German | social activist, writer and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Goldschmidt |
| Maurice Paprin | Maurice Paprin | 1920 | 2005 | null | New York City real estate developer and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Paprin |
| Mojżesz Pfefer | Mojżesz Pfefer | 1856 | 1919 | Polish | Jewish industrialist and landowner, as well as philanthropist and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojżesz_Pfefer |
| Anna Edinger | Anna Edinger | 1863 | 1929 | German | social activist, women's rights campaigner and peace activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Edinger |
| Laura Marks | Laura Marks OBE | 1960 | n/a | null | inter-faith social activist, policy adviser, writer and media commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Marks |
| Rhoda Kaufman | Rhoda Kaufman | 1888 | 1956 | American | social activist from Georgia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoda_Kaufman |
| Reut Naggar | Reut Naggar | 1983 | n/a | Israeli | producer, cultural entrepreneur and social activist, mainly focusing on LGBT and women's rights | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reut_Naggar |
| Naftuli Moster | Naftuli Moster | 1986 | n/a | American | social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftuli_Moster |
| Joseph Shapotshnick | Rabbi Joseph Shapotshnick | 1882 | 1937 | null | Jewish social activist in early-20th century London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Shapotshnick |
| Boris Dorfman | Boris (Boruch) Mendelevich Dorfman ; born 23 May 1923, in Cahul, Bessarabia) | null | null | null | Jewish public figure, writer, scholar of Jewish culture, and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Dorfman |
| Hanna Akiva | Hannah Akiva | 1974 | n/a | Israeli | social activist and a leader in the struggle of "The Disabled Panthers" for getting a minimum wage in Israel, after paying social insurance throughout their years of work | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Akiva |
| Imri Kalmann | Imri Kalmann | 1986 | n/a | null | social activist and former co-chairperson of the Israeli LGBT Association | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imri_Kalmann |
| André Ungar | André Ungar | 1929 | 2020 | Hungarian | doctor of philosophy, liturgist, social activist, and rabbi who lived in England, South Africa and the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Ungar |
| Moses Lugassy | Moshe (French spelling: Mochè) "Moses" Lugassy | 1852 | n/a | Moroccan | born British-Jewish businessman, a social activist and a Zionist leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Lugassy |
| Alice Serber Petluck | Alice S. Petluck | 1873 | 1953 | null | early Jewish and female pioneer in law and a social activist, especially for mothers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Serber_Petluck |
| Lejb Wulman | Lejb (Leon) Wulman | 1887 | 1971 | Polish | Jewish physician and social activist, the co-author (with Joseph Tenenbaum) of a monograph on the Polish-Jewish physicians murdered in the Holocaust (The Martyrdom of Jewish physicians in Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lejb_Wulman |