Isaac Goldemberg is a Peruvian-American author, founder of the Latin American Writers Institute, Brújula/Compass, and "Hostos Review", and a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Hostos Community College. Goldemberg was born in Peru, and immigrated to New York City, where he currently lives, in 1964. He is a fellow member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language.
Isaac Henderson Jr. or Isaac Austin Henderson was an American newspaper publisher, novelist, and dramatist. He was associated with the New York Evening Post for ten years.
Isaac Aronovich Hourwich was a Jewish-American economist, statistician, lawyer, and political activist. Hourwich is best remembered as a pioneer in the development of labor statistics for the American mining industry and as a prominent public intellectual among the Yiddish-language community in the United States.
Isaac Husik was a Jewish historian, translator, and student of philosophy, one of the first three individuals to serve as official faculty at Gratz College in Philadelphia.
Isaac ibn Latif was a Jewish philosopher, who lived most of his life in Toledo. In 1238 he published
his first work, a treatise named sha'ar ha-shama'yim, a commentary on Koheles (Ecclesiastes).
Artscroll's Koheles cites from his work.
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon, also known as Isaac Israeli the Elder and Isaac Judaeus, was one of the foremost Jewish physicians and philosophers living in the Arab world of his time. He is regarded as the father of medieval Jewish Neoplatonism. His works, all written in Arabic and subsequently translated into Hebrew, Latin and Spanish, entered the medical curriculum of the early thirteenth-century universities in Medieval Europe and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages.
Isaac Leeser was an American Orthodox Jewish religious leader, teacher, scholar and publisher. He helped found the Jewish press of America, produced the first Jewish translation of the Bible into English, and helped organize various social and educational organizations. He is considered one of the most important nineteenth century American Jewish personalities. He was "fiercely opposed" to Reform Judaism and was regarded as one of the most important "orthodox" rabbis of his era. Leeser is regarded as a forerunner by both Modern Orthodox Judaism and Conservative Judaism.
Isaac Oskarovich Lipnitsky was a Soviet chess master. He was a two-time Ukrainian champion, and was among Ukraine's top half-dozen players from 1948 to 1956. He was a chess theoretician and professional teacher.
