100 Most Influential Jews of All Times (Mobile)

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Learn more about 100 Most Influential Jews of all times - from Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud to Albert Einstein and Woody Allen. Their life, views, and careers illustrated with drawings and photographs.Features Fully illustrated with drawings and photographs Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases Written in clear and concise English Table of Contents Philosophers & Theologians Scientists Writers Musicians Politicians/Leaders/Public Figures Artists Fashion designers Performance Artists SportPhilosophers & Theologians Hillel (ca. 70 B.C.E.-10 C.E.) - theologian and religious leader, the founder of a dynasty of Sages. Philo of Alexandria (Philo Judaeus) (20 B.C.E.-40 C.E.) - hellenized Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt, included in his philosophy both Greek philosophy and Judaism. Flavius Josephus (ca.38-ca.100 C.E.) - historian, recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem. Rashi (1040-1105) - rabbinical commentator. Maimonides (1135-1204) - rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Spain, Morocco and Egypt during the Middle Ages. Isaac Luria (1534-1572) - kabbalist. Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) - Dutch philosopher of Jewish origin, considered one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy and one of the definitive ethicists. The Baal Shem Tov (1700-1790) - religious reformer, mystical rabbi considered to be the founder of Hasidic Judaism. Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) - German Jewish philosopher attributed with the renaissance of European Jews. Karl Marx (1818-1883) - philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. Sigmund Freud (1856-1936) - neurologist and psychiatrist, commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis". Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941) - philosopher, interested in metaphysics, irrationality, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics. Martin Buber (1878-1965) - philosopher, theologian, social activist. Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) - a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century.Scientists David Ricardo (1772-1823) - founder of classical school of economics. Ferdinand Cohn (1828-1898) - biologist and bacteriologist. Albert Michelson (1852-1931) - physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light, the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Science. Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) - medical scientist, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Sigmund Freud (1856-1936) - neurologist and psychiatrist, commonly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis". Alfred Adler (1870-1937) - medical doctor and psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology. Albert Einstein 1879-1955 - physicist, widely considered to be one of the greatest physicists of all time, best known for his theory of relativity. Max Born (1882-1970) - German mathematician and physicist. Nobel Prize Winner in Physics. Niels Bohr (1885-1962) - Danish physicist, made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, Nobel Prize Winner, worked on the Manhattan Project. Selman Waksman (1888-1973) - biochemist and microbiologist, discovered and developed of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics. Anna Freud (1895-1982) - psychologist and psychoanalyst, daughter of Sigmund Freud. Leo Szilard (1898-1964) - physicist, conceived the nuclear chain reaction and worked on the Manhattan Project. Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (1900-1958) - theoretical physicist noted for his work on the theory of spin, and the discovery of the Exclusion principle. Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) - Jewish-German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher. John Von Neumann (1903-1957) - Hungarian-born mathematician and polymath. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) - American physicist, known as the "father of the atomic bomb". Lev Landau (1908-1968) - physicist, Nobel Prize Winner, made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. Jonas Salk (1914-1995) - American physician and researcher, best known for the development of the first polio vaccine. Richard Feynman (1918-1988) - an American physicist, Nobel Prize Winner. Noam Chomsky (1928- ) linguist, psychologist, humanitarian, the eighth most cited scholar in any time period. Gregori Perelman (1966- )- mathematician, solved in the affirmative the famous Poincar conjecture.Writers Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) - greatest German romantic poet, remembered for selections of his lyric poetry. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) - a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) - an American writer and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) - an Austrian writer, author of Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) - one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century, has become amongst the most influential in Western literature. Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) - a Nobel Prize winner Russian poet, novelist best known in the West for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago. Isaak Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) - a Nobel Prize-winning Polish born American writer of both short stories and novels, wrote in Yiddish. Saul Bellow (1915-2005)- an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was an American playwright and essayist, author of a wide variety of plays including A View from the Bridge, and Death of a Salesman, considered one of the greatest playwrights of all time. Anne Frank (1929-1945) - wrote a diary while in hiding in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Josef Brodsky (1940-1996) - Russian-born poet and essayist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

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