Abraham Cahan (1860-1951), lifelong editor of the Yiddish Daily Forverts; Bella Abzug (1920-1998), feminist Congresswoman and social activist; Clara Lemlich (1886-1982), young leader of the shirtwaist worker strike of 1909; Dovid Bergelson (1884-1952), Soviet Yiddish novelist and writer; Emma Goldman (1869-1940), anarcho- feminist activist and writer; Fanny Brice (1891-1951), comedienne, singer, star of stage, screen, radio; Grace Paley (1922-2007), short story writer, peace activist; Harold Ostroff (1924-2006), cooperative housing developer, publisher, philanthropist; Itche Goldberg (1904-2006), Yiddish educator, literary critic, writer and editor; Janusz Korczak (1877-1942), pediatrician, teacher, moral philosopher in Poland; Kadya Molodowsky (1894-1074), Yiddish poet and prose writer; Lenny Bruce (1925-1966), stand-up comic, social critic; Morris U. Schappes (1907-2004), lifelong Jewish Currents editor, historian; Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), German poet, dramatist, Nobel Laureate; Otto Nathan (1893-1987), Princeton economist, close friend to Albert Einstein; Pearl Lang (1921-2009), modern dancer, choreographer; Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972), labor leader, feminist; Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916), Yiddish writer, humorist; Tillie Olson (1913-2007), feminist writer, social activist; Uriel Weinreich (1926-1967), linguist, Yiddishist; Victor Alter (1890-1941), Jewish Bund leader in Poland; Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), Marxist philosopher, social critic; Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), Israeli prime minister, military leader; Zuni Maud (1891-1956), graphic artist, illustrator, puppeteer.