List of Notable JAC Members
The size of JAC fluctuated with time. According to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (200 Years Together), it grew to have about 70 members.
- Solomon Mikhoels (Chairman), the actor-director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater
- Solomon Lozovsky (Secretary), a former Soviet vice-minister of Foreign Affairs and the head of the Soviet Information Bureau
- Shakne Epshtein (Secretary and editor of the Eynikeyt newspaper)
- Itzik Feffer, a poet
- Ilya Ehrenburg, a writer
- Solomon Bregman, a deputy minister of State Control
- Aaron Katz, a General of the Stalin Military Academy
- Boris Shimeliovich, the Chief Surgeon of the Red Army and director of Botkin Hospital
- Joseph Yuzefovich, a historian
- Leib Kvitko, a poet
- Peretz Markish, a poet
- Isaak Nusinov, a linguist and literature critic
- David Bergelson, a writer
- David Hofstein, a poet
- Benjamin Zuskin, an actor
- Ilya Vatenberg, an editor
- Shlomo Shleifer, Chief Rabbi of Moscow
- Emilia Teumin, an editor
- Leon Talmy, a journalist, translator
- Khayke Vatenberg-Ostrowskaya, a translator
- Lina Stern, a scientist
- Israel Fisanovich, submarine commander, Hero of the Soviet Union
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