223 laureates · 1905–2025
Peace laureates
Every Jewish Nobel laureate, by the standard of Wikipedia’s list: Jews, or people with at least one Jewish parent. 5 borderline cases are included and flagged as disputed. Each profile explains the work, what it meant for humanity, what went wrong, and what the laureate faced.
- Women
- 12
- Refugees or exiles
- 50
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Showing 9 of 223 laureates
Peace · 1911
Alfred Fried
A self-taught Viennese bookseller who argued that war would end only when nations built shared rules and institutions to replace anarchy.
Peace · 1911
Tobias Asser
He brought nations to The Hague to agree whose law applies when marriages, lawsuits and families cross borders.
Peace · 1968
René Cassin
A wounded WWI veteran, sentenced to death by Vichy, who helped write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for every person.
Peace · 1973
Henry Kissinger
A teenage refugee from Nazi Germany, he negotiated the 1973 Vietnam ceasefire and reshaped Cold War diplomacy, at a heavy human cost.
Refugee
Peace · 1978
Menachem Begin
A former Soviet prisoner and underground commander who, as Israel's prime minister, made Israel's first peace with an Arab state.
Refugee
Peace · 1986
Elie Wiesel
An Auschwitz survivor who turned his memories into Night and a lifelong fight against indifference to suffering anywhere.
Refugee
Peace · 1994
Shimon Peres
He built Israel's military might, then spent decades pursuing peace, signing the 1993 Oslo declaration with the PLO.
Peace · 1994
Yitzhak Rabin
A general who led Israel's army in 1967, then signed peace deals with the Palestinians and Jordan, and was killed for it.
Peace · 1995
Joseph Rotblat
A physicist who walked away from the atomic bomb project and spent 60 years working to rid the world of nuclear weapons.