Curated category
American people of German-Jewish descent
- Marx BrothersMinnie Marx, born Minnie Schoenberg in Dornum, East Frisia, arrived in New York City around 1880 with her family of funfair entertainers.
- J. Robert OppenheimerJulius Robert Oppenheimer was born on the 22nd of April 1904, in New York City to Ella Friedman and Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer.
- Irving ThalbergIrving Thalberg was born with a heart condition so severe that doctors predicted he would die before turning thirty, yet he went on to become the most…
- George AkerlofGeorge Arthur Akerlof arrived in New Haven, Connecticut on the 17th of June 1940. His mother Rosalie Clara Grubber was a housewife of German Jewish descent…
- Linda McCartneyLinda Louise Eastman entered the world on the 24th of September 1941 in Manhattan. Her father Lee Eastman practiced entertainment law and counted famous…
- Carl LaemmleKarl Lämmle was born on the 17th of January 1867 in Laupheim, Germany. He grew up in a Jewish family living in poverty on Radstrasse street.
- Hans Albert EinsteinHans Albert Einstein entered the world on the 14th of May 1904 in Bern, Switzerland. His father worked as a clerk at the Swiss Federal Institute of…
- Herbert A. SimonHerbert Alexander Simon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the 15th of June 1916. His father Arthur Simon arrived from Germany in 1903 after earning an…
- D. B. WeissDaniel Brett Weiss was born on the 23rd of April 1971 in Chicago, Illinois. His family background traces back to Jewish roots with ancestral lines extending…
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)Walter Arnold Kaufmann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on the 1st of July 1921. He grew up as a Lutheran child in a city that would soon become…
- Chris WeitzChristopher John Weitz was born on the 30th of November 1969 in New York City. His mother Susan Kohner worked as an actress while his father John Weitz…
- Richard D. WolffRichard David Wolff was born on the 1st of April 1942 in New Rochelle, New York. His parents had fled Nazism to escape Germany during World War II.
- Lawrence KleinLawrence Robert Klein entered the world on the 14th of September 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father Leo Byron Klein and mother Blanche Monheit raised him…
- Walter LippmannWalter Lippmann was born on the 23rd of September 1889 on New York's Upper East Side. He grew up as the only child in a wealthy family with German-Jewish…
- Bernard BaruchBernard Mannes Baruch entered the world on the 19th of August 1870 in Camden, South Carolina. He was born into a Jewish family where his father Simon worked…
- Erwin PanofskyErwin Panofsky was born on the 30th of March 1892 in Hanover. His parents, Arnold and Caecilie (Solling) Panofsky, were a rentier mining family from Upper…