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The Jewish 100 : a ranking of the most influential Jews of all time / Michael Shapiro.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks JGSP DS 115 .S465 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shapiro, Michael, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Biography.
- Jews.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Other Title:
- Jewish one hundred
- Jewish hundred
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Carol Pub. Group, ©1994.
- Summary:
- Offers profiles, ranging from Biblical times to the modern era, of the most influential Jewish men and women of all time, in religion, music, science, diplomacy, literature, philosophy, sports, and many other fields.
- Contents:
- Moses
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Albert Einstein
- Sigmund Freud
- Abraham
- Saul of Tarsus (Saint Paul)
- Karl Marx
- Theodor Herzl
- Mary
- Baruch de Spinoza
- David
- Anne Frank
- The prophets
- Judus Iscariot
- Gustav Mahler
- Maimonides
- Niels Bohr
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Paul Ehrlich
- Rashi
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Franz Kafka
- David Ben-Gurion
- Hillel
- John Von Neumann
- Simon Bar Kokhba
- Marcel Proust
- Mayer Rothschild
- Solomon
- Heinrich Heine
- Selman Waksman
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Isaac Luria
- Gregory Pincus
- Leon Trotsky
- David Ricardo.
- Alfred Dreyfus
- Leo Szilard
- Mark Rothko
- Ferdinand Cohn
- Samuel Gompers
- Gertrude Stein
- Albert Michelson
- Philo Judaeus
- Golda Meir
- The Vilna Gaon
- Henri Bergson
- The Baal Shem Tov
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Louis B. Mayer
- Judah Halevy
- Haym Salomon
- Johanan ben Zakkai
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Emile Durkheim
- Betty Friedan
- David Sarnoff
- Lorenzo Da Ponte
- Julius Rosenwald
- Casmir Funk
- George Gershwin
- Chaim Weizmann
- Franz Boas
- Sabbatai Zevi
- Leonard Bernstein
- Flavius Josephus
- Walter Benjamin
- Louis Brandeis
- Emile Berliner.
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Levi Strauss
- Nahmanides
- Menachem Begin
- Anna Freud
- Queen Ester
- Martin Buber
- Jonas Salk
- Jerome Robbins
- Henry Kissinger
- Wilhelm Steinitz
- Arthur Miller
- Daniel Mendoza
- - Stephen Sondheim
- Emma Goldman
- Sir Moses Montefiore
- Jerome Kern
- Boris Pasternak
- Harry Houdini
- Edward Bernays
- Leopold Auer
- Groucho Marx
- Man Ray
- Henrietta Szold
- Benny Goodman
- Steven Spielberg
- Marc Chagall
- Bob Dylan
- Sandy Koufax
- Bernard Berenson
- Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
- Notes:
- "A Citadel Press book."
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shapiro, Michael, 1951- Jewish 100.
- ISBN:
- 0806514922
- 9780806514925
- 0806518146
- 9780806518145
- OCLC:
- 29519279
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