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Adolph Joffe
Soviet diplomat (1883-1927)
Phil Ochs
American protest singer and songwriter (1940-1976)
Helene Weigel
German actress and artistic director (1900–1971)
Egon Erwin Kisch
Austrian/Czech publicist and writer (1885-1948)
Rachelle Lefevre
Canadian actress
Ilan Pappé
Israeli-British historian (born 1954)
Ruth First
South African politician (1925-1982)
Angelica Balabanoff
Russian-Jewish-Italian dissident writer, social activist, politician, editor
Stefan Heym
German writer (1913-2001)
Gillo Pontecorvo
Italian film director (1919–2006)
Isaak Brodsky
Russian artist (1884-1939)
Joanna Russ
American author (1937-2011)
Ernő Gerő
former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party
Erich Mühsam
German-Jewish anarchist writer (1878–1934)
Gerda Lerner
Austrian-American women's history scholar (1920-2013)
Grigori Sokolnikov
Soviet diplomat (1888-1939)
Pavel Axelrod
Russian Menshevik (1850–1928)
Moisei Uritsky
Soviet politician (1873-1918)
Rudolf Slánský
Czechoslovak politician (1901-1952)
Günther Anders
German-Austrian philosopher (1902–1992)
Matvei Blanter
Soviet composer of Jewish origin (1903-1990)
Hugo Haase
German jurist, politician (SPD), and pacifist (1863-1919)
Michał Kalecki
Polish economist (1899–1970)
Solomon Mikhoels
Soviet actor, Yiddish theatre performer (1890–1948)
Yevno Azef
Russian revolutionary (1869–1918)
Alexander Parvus
German political activist (1867–1924)
Boris Yefimov
Soviet and Russian political and propaganda artist (1900-2008)
Marcel Janco
Romanian-born Israel painter and architect (1895-1984)
Ernest Mandel
Belgian economist and Marxist philosopher (1923–1995)
Maxime Rodinson
French historian, sociologist and orientalist (1915–2004)
Clifford Odets
American playwright, screenwriter, and actor (1906–1963)
Iona Yakir
Soviet military commander (1896–1937)
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
French historian (1930–2006)
David Riazanov
Russian-Soviet political revolutionary, Marxist theoretician, and archivist
Isaac Deutscher
Polish Marxist historian and Trotskyist communist (1907-1967)
Michael Rosen
British children's author and poet (born 1946)
Friedrich Wolf
German writer (1888-1953)
Leonard Woolf
English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant (1880-1969)
Leo Jogiches
Marxist revolutionary, editor (1867-1919)
Fritz Bauer
German judge (1903-1968)
Leslie Feinberg
American transgender activist and writer (1949–2014)
Anna Kuliscioff
Russian feminist revolutionary and doctor (1857–1925)
Georges Politzer
French philosopher, Marxist theoretician and resistance member (1903-1942)
Ber Borochov
founder of the Labor Zionist movement (1881-1917)
Serge Klarsfeld
Romanian-born French activist and Nazi hunter (b. 1935)
Polina Zhemchuzhina
Soviet politician (1897-1970)
Grigori Shtern
Soviet general (1900–1941)
David Marshall
Singaporean politician (1908-1995)
Tibor Szamuely
Hungarian politician (1890-1919)
Yakov Smushkevich
Soviet general of aviation
Meir Dizengoff
Zionist politician (1861-1936)
Eva Illouz
Israeli sociologist and university professor
Ricardo Wolf
German-Cuban inventor, Cuban ambassador to Israel and philanthropist (1887–1982)
Leo Löwenthal
German sociologist (1900–1993)
Sam Wanamaker
American actor (1919–1993)
Paul Levi
German politician (1883-1930)
Grigory Gershuni
Russian revolutionary (1870–1908)
Fyodor Dan
Russian revolutionary (1871-1947)
Bruno Jasieński
Polish writer (1901–1938)
Leonard Nelson
German mathematician and philosopher (1882-1927)