Total number of names in database (all of them indirectly connected, by marriages that occurred between individual family members) exceeds 195,000 as of October 2009.
Please note that not all names in the database are jewish or of jewish origin.
Countless fellow genealogists (especially Enzo Falco, David Salomon, Alain Farhi, Benjamin Angel, Ugo Luzzati, Marco Luzzati, Bob Cassuto, Lea Rossi Artom, Raffaele Picciotto, Helen Reuben Bekhor, Meriam Haringman, Roberto Vitale, Paul Porath, David Framowitz, Randy Schoenberg, Peter Morpurgo, José Klingbeil, Ilai Deutel) provided me with their computerized family tree collections, directly or indirectly. Their contribution is most gratefully acknowledged.
1. Individuals:
Hannah Arendt- Philosopher
Walter Benjamin- Philosopher
Martin Buber- Philosopher
Moses Mendelsohn- Philosopher
Lucien Levy-Bruhl- Philosopher, Sociologist, Anthropologist
Felix Mendelsohn- Musician
Moses Montefiore- Philantropist
Benjamin Disraeli- Statesman
Pierre Mendes France- Statesman
Jean-Pierre Chevenement- Statesman
Alfred Dreyfus- Army officer
Amedeo Modigliani- Painter
Heinrich Heine- Poet
Georges Danton- French revolutionary politician
Joachim Murat- Napoleon's General
Sigmund Freud- MD philosopher, inventor of psychoanalysis
Edoardo Weiss- Freud's first pupil in Italy
Lawrence Durrell- Writer
Andr� Suares- French philosopher, poet
Isaac Bashevis Singer- Writer
Irwin Shaw- Writer
Albert Cohen- Writer
Primo Levi- Writer
Alberto Moravia- Writer
Umberto Saba- Poet
Natalia Ginzburg- Writer
her father Giuseppe Levi- Anatomist, histologist
his pupil Rita Levi Montalcini- 1986 Nobel Prize Scientist
her good friend Salvador Luria- 1969 Nobel Prize Scientist
Enrico Fermi- 1939 Nobel Prize Scientist
his colleague Emilio Segre'- 1959 Nobel Prize Scientist
Paul Ehrlich- 1908 Nobel Prize Scientist
Fritz Haber- 1918 Nobel Prize Scientist
Jacques Monod- 1965 Nobel Prize Scientist
Baruj Benacerraf- 1980 Nobel Prize Scientist
Franco Modigliani- 1985 Nobel Prize Economist
Amartya Sen- Nobel Prize Economist
Elias Canetti-1981 Nobel Prize Writer
Giulio Joel Racah- Physicist
Ugo Fano- Physicist
Bill Gates- Software entrepreneur, founder of Microsoft
Hans Lewy- Mathematician
Vito Volterra- Mathematician
Corrado Segre- Mathematician
Andrew Viterbi- Wireless engineer, founder of Qualcomm
Carlo Rosselli- Anti-fascist intellectual
his brother Nello Rosselli- Anti-fascist intellectual
Carlo Levi- Painter, writer, author of "Christ stopped at Eboli"
Giorgio Bassani- writer, author of "The garden of the Finzi Contini"
Gaia Servadio- novelist, biographer
Bruno Pontecorvo- Physicist
his brother Guido Pontecorvo- Geneticist
his brother Gillo Pontecorvo- Film Director
Peter Del Monte- Film Director
Nanni Moretti- Film Director
Henry, Jane, Peter Fonda- Film stars
Myrna Loy- Film star
Elizabeth Taylor- Film star
Margherita Sarfatti- Art critic, Mussolini's biographer
Gillo Dorfles- Art & design critic, writer
Lamberto Vitali- Art & photography critic, writer
Corrado Cagli- Painter
Ruggero Panerai- Painter
Maurizio Valenzi- Painter, politician, Mayor of Naples
Arturo Carlo Jemolo- Intellectual, philosopher
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber- Writer
Marcel Dassault- French airplane industrialist
Arnold Schoenberg- Viennese-American composer
Joaquin Rodrigo- Spanish composer
Claudio Scimone- Conductor, "I Musici"
Vittore Veneziani- Choirmaster at La Scala theatre
Camille Erlanger- Composer
his son Philippe Erlanger- Founder of the Cannes Film Festival
Isac Albeniz- Spanish composer
Darius Milhaud- French composer
Yehudi Menuhin- Violinist
Jozseph Szigeti- Violinist
Jean-Marc Luisada- Pianist
Gregor Piatigorsky- Cellist
Joram Piatigorsky- Scientist
Emanuele Conegliano, aka Lorenzo Da Ponte- Mozart's libretto writer
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli- Language scholar
Shlomo Dov Goitein- Historian, author of "A Mediterranean civilization"
Isacco Artom- Statesman, Cavour's secretary
Cesare Lombroso- Psychiatrist
Eugenio Colorni- Philosopher, freedom fighter
Altiero Spinelli- Founder of Europe's Federalist Movement
Ernesto Nathan- Mayor of Rome 1907-1913
Enzo Sereni- Zionist, freedom fighter
his brother Emilio Sereni- Italian Comunist Party Leader
Palmiro Togliatti- Italian Comunist Party Leader
Gerardo Chiaromonte- Italian Comunist Party Leader
Lev Davidovich Bronstein, aka Leon Trotsky- Russian Comunist Party Leader
John Kerry- Democratic US presidential candidate
Nicolas Sarkozy- French President
Carla Bruni Tedeschi- French First Lady
her sister, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi- actress
Claudio Treves- Italian Socialist Party Leader
Piero Sraffa- Political Economist, Cambridge University
Tomaso Padoa-Schioppa- Italian Monetary Economist
Cesare Cases- Germanist
Arrigo Levi- Journalist
Emanuele LELE Luzzati- Painter, Scenographer
Bruno Zevi- Architect
his wife Tullia Zevi Calabi- Jewish Leader
Amos Luzzatto- Surgeon, Historian, Jewish Leader successor to Tullia Calabi
Elio Toaff- Chief Rabbi of Rome
Riccardo Di Segni- MD radiologist, Toaff's successor as Chief Rabbi of Rome
Helena Rubinstein- industrialist, philantropist
Sandor (John Daniel) Hertz- industrialist (car rental)
2. Families:
Rothschild- Mecenates
De Camondo- Mecenates
Agnelli- Industrialists (FIAT cars)
Olivetti- Industrialists (Typewriters)
De Benedetti- Industrialists
Stock- Industrialists (distillery)
Enriques- Industrialists (Zanichelli publishers)
Grimaldi- Princes of Monaco
Buonaparte- French rulers
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