Well may I ask both of you to refrain from personal attacks here In general there is of course no rule that there must be exactly one writer or painter etc But having a choice I think one should try to get as large diversity as possible It is true that the diversity is not only in terms of occupation but also gender time etc I think there is currently a good coverage of different times starting with James Mayer de Rothschild i e from the beginning of the 19th century One may think of including a rabbi from an earlier age There is a dedicated section on Rashi with a woodcut showing him therefore I thought it is not necessary to include the same picture once again in the collage I don t have another candidate My comments to the proposed persons I agree with that Michel de Montaigne and Ir ne N mirovsky are bad candidates for the reasons given above The relation to Holocaust is not really established by including N mirovsky She was murdered in the Holocaust but there is no story behind it on which the reader would focus As for Simone Weil she can be considered as an alternative to Mirra Alfassa if there are good arguments why she is a better candidate One may have one person who converted to another faith as an explicit example As for Chagall vs Pissarro whatever the motivation of some editor may or may not be we should not make our choice to show this editor that he she is right or wrong I vote for Pissarro for two reasons 1 to increase the Sephardi faction and 2 because Chagall is included in at least 4 other collages Russian Jews Belarussian Jews Ashkenazy Jews and Jews Having the same person in all collages makes the reader think that there was only one Jewish artist worth mentioning As for Marcel Proust I can not yet judge In my opinion if someone comes from a mixed family the person can be considered if a kind of Jewish identity can be seen in the biography E g in the case of Pissarro it is written about his father that Upon his death his will specified that his estate be split equally between the synagogue and St Thomas Protestant church This tells me that the father was a member of the Jewish community while the mother was probably protestant and this should have been reflected in the family life Is there any sign of Jewish identity in the case of Proust And if yes whom can Proust replace in the collage