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Jewish Parliamentarians:
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Listed Alphabetically By First Year of Election:
(Green denotes Currently Serving; Red/Blue denotes Party Affiliation)
Representative |
Party/State |
Years of Service
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| Lewis Charles Levin | Amer.-PA |
1845-1851 |
| David Spangler Kaufman | D-TX |
1846-1851 |
| Emanuel Bernard Hart | D-NY |
1851-1853 |
| Philip Phillips | D-AL |
1853-1855 |
| Henry Myer Phillips | D-PA |
1857-1859 |
| Michael Hahn | Unionist;
R-LA |
1862-1863;
1885-1886 |
| Myer Strouse | D-PA |
1863-1867 |
| William Mallory Levy | D-LA |
1875-1877 |
| Leopold Morse | D-MA
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1877-1885;
1887-1889 |
| Edwin Einstein | R-NY |
1879-1881 |
| Julius Houseman | D-MI |
1883-1885 |
| Joseph Pulitzer | D-NY |
1885-1886 |
| Isidor Rayner | D-MD |
1887-1889;
1891-1895 |
| Nathan Frank | R-MO |
1889-1891 |
| Adolph Meyer | D-LA |
1891-1908 |
| Julius Goldzier | D-IL |
1893-1895 |
| Irving P.Wanger * | R-PA |
1893-1911 |
| Isidor Straus | D-NY |
1894-1895 |
| Israel Frederick Fischer | R-NY |
1895-1899 |
| Lucius Nathan Littauer | R-NY |
1897-1907 |
| Mitchell May | D-NY |
1899-1901 |
| Jefferson Levy | D-NY |
1899-1901;
1911-1915 |
| Julius Kahn | R-CA |
1899-1903;
1905-1924 |
| Henry Mayer Goldfogle | D-NY |
1901-1915;
1919-1921 |
| Montague Lessler | R-NY |
1902-1903 |
| Martin Emerich | D-IL |
1903-1905 |
| Harry Benjamin Wolf | D-MD |
1907-1909 |
| Adolph Joachim Sabath | D-IL |
1907--1952 |
| Victor Luitpold Berger | Soc.-WI |
1911--1913;
1919; 1923-1929 |
| Jacob Aaron Cantor, | D-NY |
1913-1915 |
| Isaac Bacharach | R-NJ |
1915-1937 |
| Meyer London | Soc.-NY |
1915-1919,
1921-1923 |
| Isaac Siegel | R-NY |
1915-1923 |
| Milton Kraus | R-IN |
1917-1923 |
| Lester David Volk | R-NY |
1920-1923 |
| Nathan David Perlman | R-NY |
1920-1927 |
| Martin Charles Ansorge | R-NY |
1921-1923 |
| Albert Berger Rossdale | R-NY |
1921-1923 |
| Benjamin Rosenbloom | R-WV |
1921-1925 |
| Samuel Marx | D-NY |
Elected
1922; died before office |
| Meyer Jacobstein | D-NY |
1923-1929 |
| Samuel Dickstein | D-NY |
1923-1945 |
| Sol Bloom | D-NY |
1923-1949 |
| Emanuel Celler | D-NY |
1923-1973 |
| Benjamin Martin Golder | R-PA |
1925-1933 |
| Florence Prag Kahn | R-CA |
1925-1937 |
| William Wolfe Cohen | D-NY |
1927-1929 |
| William Irving Sirovich | D-NY |
1927-1939 |
| Theodore Albert Peyser | D-NY |
1933-1937 |
| Henry Ellenbogen | D-PA |
1933-1938 |
| Herman Paul Kopplemann | D-CT |
1933-1939;
1941-1943:1945-1947 |
| William Paul Citron | D-CT |
1935-1939 |
| Leon Sacks | D-PA |
1937-1943 |
| Morris Michael Edelstein | D-NY |
1940-1941 |
| Arthur George Klein | D-NY |
1941-1945;
1946-1956 |
| Samuel Arthur Weiss | D-PA |
1941-1946 |
| Daniel EIlison, | R-MD |
1943-1945 |
| Benjamin J. Rabin | D-NY |
1945-1947 |
| Leo Frederick Rayfiel | D-NY |
1945-1947 |
| Jacob Koppel Javits | D-NY |
1947-1954 |
| Abraham Jacob Multer | D-NY |
1947-1967 |
| Leo Isacson | Am.
Lab.-NY |
1948-1949 |
| Theodore Irving, | D-NY |
1949-1953 |
| Abraham A. Ribicoff | D-CT |
1949-1953 |
| Louis Benjamin Heller | D-NY |
1949-1954 |
| Earl Chudoff | D-PA |
1949-1958 |
| Isidore Dollinger | D-NY |
1949-1959 |
| Sidney Richard Yates | D-IL |
1949-1963;
1965-1999 |
| Sidney Asher Fine | D-NY |
1951-1956 |
| Lester Holtzman | D-NY |
1953-1961 |
| Samuel Nathaniel Friedel | D-MD |
1953-1971 |
| Irwin Delmore Davidson | D-NY |
1955-1956 |
| Herbert Zelenko | D-NY |
1955-1963 |
| Ludwig Teller | D-NY |
1957-1961 |
| Leonard Farbstein | D-NY |
1957-1971 |
| Herman Toll | D-PA |
1959-1967 |
| Seymour Halpern | R-NY |
1959-1973 |
| Jacob H. Gilbert | D-NY |
1960-1971 |
| Charles Samuel Joelson | D-NJ |
1961-1969 |
| Benjamin S. Rosenthal | D-NY |
1962-1983 |
| Joseph Yale Resnick | D-NY |
1965-1969 |
| Herbert Tenzer | D-NY |
1965-1969 |
| James Scheuer | D-NY |
1965-1973;
1975-1993 |
| Lester Lionel Wolff | D-NY |
1965-1981 |
| Sam Steiger | R-AZ |
1967-1977 |
| Joshua Eilberg | D-PA |
1967-1979 |
| Bertram L. Podell | D-NY |
1968-1975 |
| Allard K. Lowenstein, | D-NY |
1969-1971 |
| Abner Joseph Mikva, | D-IL |
1969-1973;
1975-1979 |
| Edward Irving Koch | D-NY |
1969-1977 |
| Bella Savitsky Abzug | D-NY |
1971-1977 |
| Benjamin Arthur Gilman | R-NY |
1973-2003 |
| Edward M. Mezvinsky | D-IA |
1973-1977 |
| Elizabeth Holtzman | D-NY |
1973-1981 |
| William Lehman | D-FL |
1973-1993 |
| Henry Arnold Waxman | D-CA |
1975- |
| John Hans Krebs | D-CA |
1975-1979 |
| Gladys Noon Spellman | D-MD |
1975-1981 |
| Frederick W. Richmond | D-NY |
1975-1982 |
| Elliott Harris Levitas | D-GA |
1975-1985 |
| Willis David Gradison | R-OH |
1975-1993 |
| Stephen Solarz | D-NY |
1975-1993 |
| Marc Lincoln Marks | R-PA |
1977-1983 |
| Theodore S. Weiss | D-NY |
1977-1992 |
| Daniel Robert Glickman | D-KS |
1977-1995 |
| Anthony C. Beilenson | D-CA |
1977-1997 |
| Sedgwick William Green | R-NY |
1978-1993 |
| (Jonas) Martin Frost | D-TX |
1979-2005 |
| Kenneth Bentley Kramer | R-CO |
1979-1987 |
| Howard Elliot Wolpe III | D-MI. |
1979-1993 |
| Barney Frank | D-MA |
1981-2013 |
| Thomas Peter Lantos | D-CA |
1981-2008 |
| Robert Norton Shamanksy | D-OH |
1981-1983 |
| Roberta Francis (Bobbi) Fiedler | D-CA. |
1981-1987 |
| Ronald Lee Wyden | D-OR |
1981-1996 |
| Charles Ellis Schumer | D-NY |
1981-1999 |
| Samuel Gejdenson | D-CT |
1981-2001 |
| Gary Leonard Ackerman | D-NY |
1983-2013 |
| Howard L. Berman | D-CA |
1983-2013 |
| Sander Martin Levin | D-MI |
1983- |
| Norman Sisisky | D-VA |
1983-2001 |
| Sala Galant Burton | D-CA |
1983-1987 |
| Barbara Boxer | D-CA |
1983-1992 |
| Benjamin Leader Erdreich | D-AL |
1983-1993 |
| Meldon Edises Levine | D-CA |
1983-1993 |
| Lawrence Jack Smith | D-FL |
1983-1993 |
| John Miller | R-WA |
1985-1993 |
| Benjamin Cardin | D-MD |
1987-2006 |
| Eliot Lance Engel | D-NY |
1989- |
| Nita Melnikoff Lowey | D-NY |
1989- |
| Steve Schiff | R-NM |
1989-1997 |
| Bernard Sanders | Ind.-VT |
1991-2006 |
| Richard Zimmer | R-NJ |
1991-1997 |
| Jerrold Lewis Nadler | D-NY |
1992- |
| Peter R. Deutsch | D-FL |
1993-2005 |
| Robert Filner | D-CA |
1993-2013 |
| Sam Coppersmith | D-AZ |
1993-1995 |
| Eric Fingerhut | D-OH |
1993-1995 |
| Daniel Hamburg | D-CA |
1993-1995 |
| Herbert Charles Klein | D-NJ |
1993-1995 |
| David A. Levy | R-NY |
1993-1995 |
| Margolis M. Mezvinsky | D-PA |
1993-1995 |
| Lynn Schenk | D-CA |
1993-1995 |
| Jane F. Harman | D-CA |
1993-1999, 2001-2011 |
| Jon Fox | R-PA |
1995-1999 |
| Steven R. Rothman | D-NJ |
1997-2013 |
| Brad Sherman | D-CA |
1997- |
| Robert Wexler | D-FL |
1997-2010 |
| Shelley Berkley | D-NV |
1999-2013 |
| Jan Schakowsky | D-IL |
1999- |
| Anthony Weiner | D-NY |
1999-2011 |
| Eric Cantor | R-VA |
2001- |
| Susan Davis | D-CA |
2001- |
| Steve Israel | D-NY |
2001- |
| Adam Schiff | D-CA |
2001- |
| Rahm Emanuel | D-IL |
2003-2009 |
| Allyson Schwartz | D-PA |
2004- |
| Debbie Wasserman Schultz | D-FL |
2005- |
| Gabrielle Giffords | D-AZ |
2007-2012 |
| Ronald Klein | D-FL |
2007-2011 |
| John Yarmuth | D-KY |
2007- |
| Paul Hodes | D-NH |
2007-2011 |
| Stephen Cohen | D-TN |
2007- |
| Steve Kagen | D-WI |
2007-2011 |
| John H. Adler | D-NJ |
2009-2011 |
| Alan Grayson | D-FL |
2009-2011, 2013- |
| Jared Polis | D-CO |
2009- |
| Ted Deutch | D-FL |
2010- |
| David Cicilline | D-RI |
2011- |
| Lois Frankel | D-FL |
2013- |
| Alan Lowenthal | D-CA |
2013- |
| Brad Schneider | D-IL |
2013- |
*Several sources suggest Wanger was a Protestant who later joined the Episcopal Church. He is buried in an Episcopalian Lutheran cemetery.
Source: Maisel, L. Sandy and Ira Forman, Eds. Jews in American Politics. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
