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Jewish in history has to cover over four thousand years long and to include hundreds of different populations.
Of the two terms, Jews and Judaism, the former denotes usually the Israelites or descendants of Jacob (Israel) in contrast to Gentile races; the latter, the creed and worship of the Jews in contrast to Christianity, Mohammedanism, etc. History of the Jews. Catholic Encyclopedia.
It is important for us to know how our Great live and work, so that we can learn from them and improve our own life. [1]
Some of the most influential Jews on mankind of all time
A brief list:
Artists
- Marc Chagall
- George Gershwin
- Maurycy Gottlieb
- Samuel Hirszenberg
- Paul Klee
- Gustav Mahler
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Camille Pissarro
- Diego Rivera
- Reuben Rubin
- Chaim Soutine
- Abraham Zabludovsky
Actors
- Woody Allen
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
- Harrison Ford
- Cary Grant
- Julio Iglesias
- Jerry Lewis
- Ali MacGraw
- Marcel Marceau
- The Marx Brothers
- Paul Newman
- Barbra Streisand
- Elizabeth Taylor
Businessmen
- Steve Ballmer
- Samuel Bronfman
- Michael Dell
- Larry Ellison
- James Goldsmith
- Milton Hershey
- Irwin Jacobs
- Calvin Klein
- Ronald Lauder
- Robert Maxwell
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
- George Soros
- Levi Strauss
- Sandy Weill
- Sheldon G. Adelson The World’s Richest Jew. [2]
Chess champions
Criminals
- Harry Greenberg
- Louis Kravits
- Bernard Madoff
- Kevin Mitnick The most famous hacker.
- Arnold Rothstein
- Harvey Rosenberg
- Bernard Rosencrantz
- Dutch Schultz
- Bugsy Siegel
Economists
Journalists
- Carl Bernstein
- David Brooks
- Samuel Krafsur
- Charles Krauthammer
- George Packer
- John Podhoretz
- Lesley Stahl
- Mike Wallace
- Jacobo Zabludovsky
Musicians
- Paula Abdul
- Cass Elliot
- Ramblin' Jack Elliot
- Benny Goodman
- Ben Harper
- Mickey Hart
- Lenny Kravitz
- Adam Lambert
- Barry Manilow
- David Lee Roth
Politicians
- Elliott Abrams
- Madeleine Albright
- Menachem Begin
- David Ben-Gurion
- Judah Benjamin
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Rahm Emanuel
- Richard Goldstone
- Theodor Herzl
- Henry Kissinger
- Golda Meir
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Mordecai Manuel Noah
- Shimon Peres
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Robert Rubin
- Ariel Sharon
- James Schlesinger
- Chaim Weizmann
- Caspar Weinberger
Religion
Scientists
- Niels Bohr
- Albert Einstein
- Sigmund Freud
- David Gross
- Bernard Katz
- John Kemeny
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Carl Sagan
- Jonas Salk
- Bernie Siegel
- Edward Teller
Writers
- Isaac Asimov
- Henri Bergson
- Elias Canetti
- Noam Chomsky
- Heinrich Heine
- Franz Kafka
- Clarice Lispector
- Norman Mailer
- Maimonides
- Arthur Miller
- Gabriela Mistral
- Marcel Proust
- Stephen Schwartz
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gertrude Stein
- Elie Wiesel
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
- Stefan Zweig
