# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-birnbaum
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:29:25.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-birnbaum"
name: "Jacob Birnbaum"
slug: "jacob-birnbaum"
description: "Jacob (Yaakov) Birnbaum was the German-born founder of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) and other human rights organizations. Because the SSSJ, at the time of its founding, in 1964, was the first initiative to address the plight of Soviet Jewry, he is regarded as the father of the Movement to Free Soviet Jewry. His father was Solomon Birnbaum and grandfather Nathan Birnbaum."
tagline: "American activist (1926-2014)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1926-12-10"
deathDate: "2014-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.9
  momentum:             7.147998200629779
  historical:           5.473434666666667
  currentAttention:     34.18803418803418
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Birnbaum"
    title: "Jacob Birnbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "جاكوب بيرنبوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "جاكوب بيرنبوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1"
    title: "Бирнбаум, Якоб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakubu_Birnbaum"
    title: "Yakubu Birnbaum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%91_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9D"
    title: "יעקב בירנבאום"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8046280"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump