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Jewish super-heroes, villains, and other characters

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Number of characters in this sub-list: 493 (out of a total of 30,256 in the database).  Records 1 through 50 displayed below.

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Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
The Queen of Sheba The Queen of Sheba real/historical person
CBR Scale: M African primal-indigenous
religion; Jewish (convert)
  DC 15
Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) supporting character real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Catholic (lapsed); Kabbalah
(convert)
Warner Brothers 463
Kirk Douglas real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Conservative Judaism
[
1st app: The Special London Bridge Special (1972)
]
Winters Hollywood Entertainment Holdings Corporation NBC 187
Moon Knight Moon Knight (Marc Spector) hero clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: M Egyptian classical religion
(raised Jewish)
U.S. Marines; Marvel Knights 
The Avengers; CIA
Marvel 423
Quicksilver Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) villain hero
CBR Scale: I Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half
Jewish; sometimes mutant
supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy; Ultimates 
The Avengers; X-Factor; Brotherhood of Mutants

[Transia]
Marvel 944
Scarlet Witch Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) hero
CBR Scale: M Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half
Jewish; sorceress
Avengers (MC2); Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy 
Ultimates; The Avengers; Secret Defenders; Force Works; Brotherhood of Mutants; Lady Liberators
Marvel 1,624
The Acidic Jew The Acidic Jew (Moshe Chomsky) hero
CBR Scale: D Hasidic Judaism
[story later re-worked in "Common Grounds"] Image Top Cow 2
Ethel Kravits supporting character
CBR Scale: D Hasidic Judaism
[late wife of mafia enforcer Louis Kravits] Marvel 1
Shadows (Louis Kravits) supporting character
CBR Scale: D Hasidic Judaism
Mafia
[hired Heroes for Hire to retrieve stolen diamonds]
Marvel 2
16th century Golem 16th century Golem hero
CBR Scale: D Jewish
[
1st app: "There Comes Now Raging Fire" in Strange Tales #177 (Dec. 1974)
]
Marvel 1
A Jew in Communist Prague A Jew in Communist Prague (Jonas Fink) lead character
CBR Scale: M Jewish
[Czechoslovakia] NBM Publishing 3
a Merica Jew a Merica Jew hero
CBR Scale: D Jewish
  Blogger Hero Machine, etc. 1
Benjamin Abramov supporting character
CBR Scale: U Jewish
[Israel] Marvel 1
Achilles Achilles (Helmut) hero
CBR Scale: I Jewish
Pantheon Marvel 17
Abraham Adamson Abraham Adamson supporting character
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[
1st app: Strange Tales (vol. 1) #174 (June 1974)
]
Marvel 3
Jason Adamson Jason Adamson supporting character
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[
1st app: Strange Tales (vol. 1) #174 (June 1974)
]
Marvel 4
Rebecca Adamson Rebecca Adamson supporting character
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[
1st app: Strange Tales (vol. 1) #174 (June 1974)
]
Marvel 4
Marte Allon Marte Allon supporting character
CBR Scale: I Jewish
[Colossal Boy's mother; President of Earth] DC 27
Wynn Allon supporting character
CBR Scale: I Jewish
[Colossal Boy's father] DC 13
Alter TseElon Alter Tse'Elon (Yedida Tse'Elon) villain
CBR Scale: M Jewish
[Israel. led Israeli army; tried to capture Yorick Brown] DC Vertigo 20
Ambush Bug Ambush Bug (Irwin Schwab) hero
CBR Scale: U Jewish
Justice League of Anarchy DC 52
American Flagg! American Flagg! (Reuben Flagg) hero
CBR Scale: I Jewish
Plexus Rangers First 68
Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer) supporting character real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[
1st app: "Ask Ann Landers" newspaper column in Chicago Sun-Times (1943)
]
Creators Syndicate 3
The Anointed One The Anointed One hero
CBR Scale: D Jewish
The League DC 3
another old Jewish lady supporting character
CBR Scale: D Jewish
  Harvey Pekar Comics 1
Anthony usps supporting character
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[1st app: Mendy and the Golem] Mendy Enterprises 8
Archie the Gruesome supporting character
CBR Scale: M Jewish
[yamulke-wearing would-be ally of Captain America] Timely 1
Bea Arthur Bea Arthur real/historical person
CBR Scale: I Jewish
  NBC Marvel 178
Asa Asa hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[
1st app: "Melisada" story in Haaretz Shelanu magazine (1971)
]
Haaretz Shelanu 1
Norma Astrovik supporting character
CBR Scale: I Jewish
[mother of Justice (Vance Astro)] Marvel 13
Atom Smasher Atom Smasher (Albert Rothstein) hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Infinity Inc.; Conglomerate 
Justice League
DC 223
Atsum Atsum (Ofer Muklabi) hero
CBR Scale: I Jewish
Tremendous Blue Sky
[Israel]
Ofer Zanzuria 1
Paul Auster Paul Auster real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[known for blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction] Marvel 29
Meyer Banciewicz supporting character
CBR Scale: M Jewish
[Poland. grandfather of Marvel Boy (David Bank)] Marvel 1
Banjo supporting character based on a real person
CBR Scale: I Jewish
[Joker impersonated comedian "Banjo" (based on Harpo Marx)] DC 1
Irving Bank supporting character
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[Marvel Boy's father] Marvel 2
Barry supporting character based on a real person
CBR Scale: A Jewish
[looks like Larry King] Marvel 1
Abraham Beame supporting character real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[United Kingdom; USA] Marvel 9
Bedlam Bedlam (Pvt. Bermuda Schwartz) hero
CBR Scale: U Jewish
X-Force (M Branch) Marvel 2
Brian Michael Bendis real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Jewish
  Marvel 5
Benny Benny hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
The Lagoon Company Shogakukan Madhouse 11
Jack Benny Jack Benny real/historical person
CBR Scale: I Jewish
  Marvel 473
Bob Benson villain based on a real person
CBR Scale: I Jewish
[tried to kill Dazzler on set of "Chiller" music video] Marvel 2
Jake Berenson Jake Berenson hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Animorphs Scholastic 80
Tom Berenson Tom Berenson hero
CBR Scale: I Jewish
Animorphs Scholastic 69
Rosie Berger supporting character
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[Boogieman's mother] DC Milestone Media 4
Frank Berkowitz supporting character
CBR Scale: U Jewish
[1st app: Man of Steel #4 (Nov. 1986)] DC 8
Carl Bernstein Carl Bernstein real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[broke Watergate story] Marvel 55
Sammy Bernstein supporting character
CBR Scale: M Jewish
  Marvel 4
Blackstarr (Rachel Berkowitz) villain
CBR Scale: I Jewish
[1st app: Supergirl (vol. 2) #14 (1983)] DC 12

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