Famous People with Name Joffe

Adolph Abramovich Joffe            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Adolph Abramovich Joffe: was a Communist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat of Karaite Jewish descent. Joffe was born in Crimea (then part of the Russian Empire now part of Ukraine) in a wealthy Karaite Jewish family and became a social democrat in 1900 while still in high school. He formally joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1903. Joffe was born in Crimea (then part of the Russian Empire now part of Ukraine) in a wealthy Karaite Jewish family and became a social democrat in 1900 while still in high school.

Roland Joffé            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Roland Joffé: is an English film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series Bill Brand and factual dramas for Play for Today.

Josef Joffe            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Josef Joffe: is publisher-editor (German: Herausgeber) of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper. His second career has been in academia. Appointed Senior Fellow of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies in 2007 (a faculty position), he is also the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution and a courtesy professor of political science at Stanford University. Since 1999, he has been an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.