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divinity of,

faith of,

and Hillel,

importance of,

and Judas Iscariot,

and Mary,

and Moses,

and Paul,

Jewish Enlightenment.
See
Haskalah

Joachim, Joseph

Johanan ben Zakkai (rabban)

John (saint)

Johnson, Lyndon

Johnson, Paul

Jolson, Al

Jones, Ernest

Jong, Erica

Joseph II of Austria

Josephus Flavius (Joseph ben Matthias)

Joshua (Jesus) (teacher)

Joyce, James

Judah Halevy

Judas Iscariot

Jurassic Park
(film)

Kafka, Franz

Kagan, Elena

Kane, Bob

Kant, Immanuel

Kapital, Das
(Capital) (Marx)

Kaplan, Justin

Kaufman, George S.

Kaufman, Rosa

Kazan, Elia

Keaton, Buster

Kennedy, John

Kerensky, Aleksandr

Kern, Jerome

Khomeini, Ayatollah

Khrushchev, Nikita

King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.

Kissinger (Heinz Alfred), Henry

Klein, Melanie

Klimt, Gustav

Kline, Franz

Koch, Robert

Kook, Abraham Isaac

Kooning, Willem de

Koufax (Sanford), Sandy

Koussevitzky, Serge

Kraemer, Fritz

Krasner, Lee

Krupa, Gene

Kun, Béla

Landauer, Gustav

Langdell, Christopher C.

Lasker, Emmanuel

Lauren, Ralph

Laurents, Arthur

Lavater, Johann

Lee, Stan

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

Lenin, Nikolai

Leonard, Benny (Benjamin Leiner)

Lerner, Alan Jay

Lessing, Gotthold

Levi, Primo

Levinsky, Battling

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Levi Strauss & Co.

Lincoln, Abraham

Lincoln, Mary Todd

Lind, James

Liszt, Franz

Lloyd, Harold

Lloyd-George, David

Lodge, Henry Cabot

Loew, Marcus

Loewe, Frederick

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Lorentz, H.A.

Louis Philippe (king)

Luckman, Sid

Lueger, Karl

Luria, Isaac (ben Solomon) (Rabbi Isaac Ashkenazi)

Luther, Martin

Luxemburg, Rosa

Maccabeus, Judas

McCarthy, Joseph

Maccoby, Hyam

Madison, James

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Mahler, Gustav

Mahler, Margaret

Maimonides (Rabbi Moses ben Maimon)

Malthus, Thomas

Mannes, Leopold

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitsky)

Mao

Marconi, Guglielmo

Maria Theresa (queen)

Marriage of Figaro, The
(Mozart/Da Ponte)

Marsalis, Wynton

Marshall, George

Martin, Mary

Marx, Groucho (Julius Henry)

Marx, Heinrich

Marx, Karl (Heinrich)

Marx Brothers

Mary (Virgin; Mother of God)

Maugham, Somerset

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Mayer, Armand

Mayer, Louis B.

Mead, Margaret

Meir (Mabovitz), Golda

Mencken, H.L.

Mendelssohn, Fanny

Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy), (Jacob Ludwig) Felix

Mendelssohn, Moses

Mendoza, Daniel

Mercier (general)

Meredith, William

Merman, Ethel

Metterních, Prince Klemens von

Meyerbeer, Giacomo (Jakob Liebmann Beer)

Meyerson, Morris

M-G-M (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

Michelangelo

Michelson, Albert Abraham

Mill, James

Mill, John Stuart

Miller, Arthur

Millett, Kate

Misfits, The
(film)

Mishnah (codification of oral law)

Mitnagdim

Monroe, Marilyn

Montefiore, Sir Moses

Montesquieu, Baron Charles de

Monteverdi, Claudio

Mordecai (uncle of Esther)

Morelli, Giovanni

Morgenthau, Henry

Morley, Edward

Morphy, Paul

Morris, Robert

Mortara, Edgardo

Moses (lawgiver/prophet)

Mostel, Zero

Mounet-Sully (performer)

Moussorgsky, Modest

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus characteristic of,

Mufti of Jerusalem

Muhammad (prophet)

Nachman of Bratislava (rabbi)

Nahmanides (Rabbi Moses ben Nahman),

Nakasone, Yashiro

Napoleon

influence of,

Nasser, Gamal Abdel

Nathan of Gaza (Nathan the Prophet

Nero (emperor)

Newman, Barnett

Newton, Sir Isaac

New York School of Abstract Expressionism

Nightingale, Florence

Night at the Opera, A
(film)

Nijinsky, Vaslav

Nixon, Richard

Noailles, Anna de

Nones, Benjamin

Nude Descending a Staircase
(Duchamp)

Nusbaum, Augusta

O’Hara, Frank

O’Hara, John

O’Keeffe, Georgia

O’Malley, Walter

Oppenheimer, J. Robert

Paganini, Niccolo

Paley, William

Palmerston, Viscount Henry,

Pappenheim, Bertha

Parker, Charlie

Pasternak, Boris

Pasternak, Leonid

Pasteur, Louis

Paul (saint)

See also
Saul of Tarsus

Pauli, Wolfgang

Peel, Sir Robert

Perelman, S.J.

Peres, Shimon

Pfeffer, Dr. Friedrich

Pharisees

Philo Judaeus

Picabia, Francis

Picasso, Pablo

Picquart, Georges

Pincus, Gregory (Goodwin)

Pissarro, Camille

Pius IX, Pope

Planck, Max

Plato

Plautus (Roman humorist)

Pollock, Jackson

Porgy and Bess
(Gershwin)

Porter, Cole

Prince, Harold (Hal)

Prince, Rabbi Judah

Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, The
(Ricardo)

Prokofiev, Sergei

Prophets (biblical)

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

Proust, Dr. Adrien

Proust, Marcel

Proust, Robert

Puccini, Giacomo

Rabin, Yitzhak

Rabinow, Jacob

Rabinowitz, Harry and Lena (Rips)

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Racine, Jean Baptiste

Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Itzhaki)

Ravel, Maurice

RCA (Radio Corp. of America)

Reeve, Christopher

Reeves, George

Reiner, Fritz

Reinhardt, Ad

Reitman, Ben

Remembrance of Things Past (A la recherche du temps perdu)
(Proust)

Reveltuas, Silvestre

Rhapsody in Blue
(Gershwin)

Ricardo, Abraham

Ricardo, David

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Ritchard, Cyril

Robbins (Rabinowitz), Jerome

Robinson, Jackie

Rockefeller, John D.

Rockefeller, Nelson

Rodgers, Richard

Rodin, Auguste

Rodzinski, Artur

Rogers, Ginger

Roller, Alfred

Rooney, Mickey

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rosen, Harold

Rosenbloom, “Slapsie” Maxie

Rostand, Edmond

Rothko, Mark (Marcus Rothkovich; Rothkowitz)

Rothschild, Amschel

Rothschild, Lionel de

Rothschild, (Lord) Mayer (Amschel)

Rothschild, Nathan

Rothschild, Solomon

Rothschilds, the

Rubin, Jerry

Rubinstein, Akiba

Rubinstein, Anton

Russell, Bertrand

Rutherford, Ernest

Ryskind, Morrie

Sabbatai Zevi (Mehmet Effendi)

Sabin, Albert

Sadat, el-, Anwar

Sahlein, William

Saint-Simon, Comte Claude de Saladin

Salieri, Antonio

Salk, Jonas

Salomon, Haym

Salomon, Haym Moses

Salvador, Francis

Salvarsan (drug)

Samuel, Herbert

Samuels, Ernest

Sand, George

Sandherr (colonel)

Sanger, Margaret

Sanhedrin (high court)

Sardou (playwright)

Sarnoff, David

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Saul (warrior)

Saul of Tarsus

,
See also
Paul

Scheurer-Kestner, Auguste

Schiff, Jacob

Schiller, Johann von

Schindler’s List
(film)

Schmidt, Karl Ludwig

Schnapper, Gutele

Schnitzler, Arthur

Schoenberg, Arnold

Scholem, Gershom (Gerhard)

Schonberg, Harold C.

Schubert, Franz

Schumann, Clara

Schumann, Robert

Schuyler, Philip

Scriabin, Aleksandr

Scribe, Eugene

Sears, Richard

Sears, Roebuck and Co.

Secessionists

Seeger, Pete

Selznick, David O.

Sennett, Mack

Shah of Iran

Shakespeare, William

Shamir, Yitzak

Shammai (rabbi)

Sharon, Ariel

Shaw, George Bernard

Sheba, Queen of

Sherry, Norm

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Show Boat
(musical)

Shuster, Joe

Siegel, Jerry

Siegmeister, Elie

Sikorsky, Igor

Silvers, Phil

Simon the Zealot

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Six Day War

Smith, Adam

Society for the Private Performance of Music

Solomon (king)

Solomon, Nahum

Sondheim, Stephen,

Song of Songs
(Solomon?)

Spielberg, Steven

Spinoza, Baruch de

Springsteen, Bruce

Stalin, Joseph

influence of,

Stamos, Theodoros

Stein, Gertrude

Steinitz, Wilhelm

Stern, David

Stern Gang

Stewart, Anita

Stieglitz, Alfred

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Strauss, Johann

Strauss, Levi (Lob)

Strauss, Richard

Stravinsky, Igor

Strindberg, August

Styne, Jules

Sunday in the Park with George
(musical)

Superman (fictional character)

Surrealists

Swanee
(Gershwin)

Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(musical)

Symbolists

Szilard, Leo

Szold, Rabbi Benjamin

Szold, Henrietta

Tacitus (Roman historian)

Taft, William Howard,

Talleyrand, Charles de

Talmud

enrichment of

as rule of law

study of

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich

Teller, Edward

Teresa (mother)

Thalberg, Irving

Thomas, Dylan

Thomson, Virgil

Three Stooges

Titus (son of Vespasian)

Todd, Thelma

Toklas, Alice B.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Torquemada, Tomás de

Toscanini, Arturo

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de

Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
(Spinoza)

Tracy, Spencer

Trotsky, Leon (Lev Davidovich Bronstein),

Truman, Harry

Tudor, Antony

Twain, Mark

Tzaddik

Tzara, Tristan (Sami Rosenstock)

Ullmann, Viktor

Van Pels, the

Verdi, Giuseppe

Verlaine, Paul

Vespasian (emperor)

Vibronia (bacteria)

Victoria (queen)

Vilna Gaon (Elijah ben Solomon Zalman)

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