Curated category
Jewish atheists
- Roman PolanskiRoman Polanski was born on the 18th of August 1933 in Paris. His family moved back to Kraków, Poland, in early 1937. Two years later, Nazi Germany invaded…
- Karl MarxKarl Marx entered the world on the 5th of May 1818 at Brückengasse 664 in Trier, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. His father Heinrich Marx worked as a…
- Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud was born Sigismund Schlomo Freud on the 6th of May 1856 in the Moravian town of Freiberg, then part of the Austrian Empire.
- Franz KafkaFranz Kafka entered the world on the 3rd of July 1883 in a cramped apartment near the Old Town Square of Prague. His father Hermann ran a haberdashery store…
- Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was born on the 28th of November 1908 in Brussels. His parents were French Jews who had moved there for his father's work as a portrait…
- Eugene WignerEugene Paul Wigner was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary on the 17th of November 1902. He grew up as the son of Elisabeth Elsa Einhorn and Antal Anton…
- Mátyás RákosiMátyás Rákosi was born Mátyás Rosenfeld on the 9th of March 1892 in Ada, a small village within Bács-Bodrog County. His father József Rosenfeld worked as a…
- Leon TrotskyLev Davidovich Bronstein was born on the 7th of November 1879 into a wealthy but illiterate Jewish farming family in Yanovka, a village in the Kherson…
- Taika WaititiTaika David Cohen arrived in the world on the 16th of August 1975 within the city of Wellington. He grew up across two distinct landscapes, spending time in…
- 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…
- Erich FrommErich Seligmann Fromm was born on the 23rd of March 1900 in Frankfurt am Main. He grew up as the only child of Rosa and Naphtali Fromm.
- Niels BohrOn the 7th of October 1885, Niels Henrik David Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He grew up as the second of three children to Christian Bohr and Ellen…
- Lev LandauLev Davidovich Landau was born on the 22nd of January 1908 in Baku, then part of the Russian Empire. His father worked as an engineer for the local oil…
- A. J. AyerAlfred Jules Ayer entered the world on the 29th of October 1910 in St John's Wood, a district in north west London. His parents were wealthy continental…
- Anton RubinsteinAnton Grigoryevich Rubinstein was born to Jewish parents in the village of Vikhvatinets, located within the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire.