Jews in the popular culture

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List of Jewish actors and actresses

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List of British Jewish entertainers

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List of British Jewish writers

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List of Jewish American entertainers

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List of Jewish American authors

List of Jewish actors and actresses

1990s

 

1980s

 

1970s

 

1960s

 

1950s

 

1940s

 

1930s

 

1920s

 

1910s

 

1900s

 

1890s

 

1880s

 

1870s

 

1860s

 

1850s

 

1840s

 

1830s

 

1820s

 

 

1750s

 

List of British Jewish entertainers

 

 

TV actors

 

TV and Radio Presenters

 

Directors/producers/executives

 

Comedians

"Eagle-eyed viewers of Channel 4's music show Popworld might have spotted its Jewish presenter Simon Amstell"

 

Theatre

 

 

Radio

 

Popular musicians

"Elkie Brooks and Graham Gouldman are two Jewish pop star graduates of Sedgley Park Primary School, Prestwich"

 

Producers/managers

 

Classical musicians

 

Songwriters

 

Ballet dancers

 

Other

 

List of British Jewish writers

His children, Giles and Victoria, are also writers

 

Authors, K-Z

Jewish Chronicle 13/3/1998 p1: "Dame Muriel Spark, the author of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and several other celebrated works, is halachically Jewish." (Says her mother was Jewish too.)
"Israel Zangwill, Anglo-Jewish writer and political activist, was probably the best known Jew in the English-speaking world at the start of the twentieth century."

 

Poets

"Abstract: "Difference at War" is a comparative study of three Jewish poet-soldiers of the First World War: Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and U. Z. Grinberg. ... The poetry of each of these Jewish poets was transformed by the War"

 

Playwrights

 

Journalists

 

List of Jewish American entertainers

 

Comedians

 

Dance

Persons listed with a double asteriks (**) are winners of the Tony Award for Best Choreography.

 

Film directors

 

Magicians

 

Models

DJ Eliran (Eliran Rafael) - Probably the most famous Jewish DJ in the world DJ Eliran hosts the major Jewish holiday events around the World, even the Wall Street Journal wrote about him http://www.djeliran.com http://www.myspace.com/djeliran

 

Producers, screenwriters and creators (film and television)

 

Professional Wrestlers

 

TV and radio presenters

 

Theater

Persons listed with a double asteriks (**) are producers who have won the Tony Award for Best Musical and/or the Tony Award for Best Play. Those listed with a triple asteriks (***) have won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and/or Play. Those listed with a quadruple asteriks (****) have won the Tony Award for Best Actor or Best Actress in a Musical or Play.

List of Jewish American authors

A–D

 

E–K

 

L–R

 

S–Z

 

Literary critics

List of Jewish American journalists

List of Jewish American poets

List of Jewish American playwrights