Michael Shapiro's The Jewish 100 : a ranking of the most influential Jews of PDF

By Michael Shapiro

ISBN-10: 1470014424

ISBN-13: 9781470014421

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This ebook is a delightful shock. Shapiro makes use of the trendy gadget of a booklet of scores to give brief biographies of a hundred influential Jewish women and men. His decisions for inclusion are all sound and every now and then striking, operating from Moses, ranked at #1, via Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, at quantity a hundred. The work's fundamental power lies in Shapiro's well-written entries, which trap the significance of the topic in an attractive, informative, and interesting type. one could argue over who's ranked the place or even if a specific person must have been integrated, yet those cavils don't cut down the book's total price. this isn't, and used to be no longer meant to be, a proper, scholarly reference paintings. fairly, it's an engaging and stress-free evaluation of proficient members designed to attract basic readers and teenagers. instructed for all public and faculty libraries.
- Stephen L. Hupp, Capital Univ. Lib., Columbus, Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed enterprise info, Inc.

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Each individual on Shapiro's checklist of the main influential Jews of all time had a unique effect on humankind, altering the best way we are living and imagine. a number of touched the souls and minds of Jews merely yet are vital to the realm due to their defining presence on Jewish identification. beginning with Moses, the prophet and lawgiver who led the Israelites out of Egypt, Shapiro ranks and examines them of their order of impression. moment is Jesus, by way of physicist Albert Einstein; then Sigmund Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis, and Abraham, the founding patriarch of the Jews. The checklist contains such different figures as composer Gustav Mahler; Maimonides, the best Jewish pupil of the center a while; Rashi, the world's top-rated Talmudist; artist Mark Rothko; and actress Sarah Bernhardt. In compiling any record, the writer hazards being criticized for what the reader believes to be incorrect omissions or inclusions. regardless of Shapiro's enticing and cogent record, the omission of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel is meaningless. Unfathomable, too, is the omission of Nobel Prize winners Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow, in addition to author I. L. Peretz, one of many significant personalities in sleek Jewish historical past and the formative impact on glossy Yiddish literature. George Cohen

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Their friendship ended bitterly. This was to be the first of several important friendships Freud would enjoy, then angrily end over philosophical disagreements (Wilhelm Fliess, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler, to name the three most famous). Freud acted like a biblical prophet when his ideas were questioned, surrounding himself with followers like a Hasidic rebbe uttering Talmudic wisdom to disciples hanging on every word. In 1900 Freud published arguably his greatest book, certainly his most influential.

His work in the patent office as a civil servant provided free time to pursue his research. His coworkers marveled how Einstein in one hour could accomplish as much as the average worker in a full day. In 1905, Einstein had published in the Annalen der Physik, a prominent scientific journal of the day, three extraordinary papers. The first quantified the so-called Brownian motion of molecules (affecting the future of scientific methods of measurement). The second paper concerned the “photo-electric effect,” which was to lay the theoretical foundation for the later invention of television.

The traditions established by Moses defined the Jewish people and formed the basis of the three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Any person, Jew, Christian, or Muslim, must recognize that many of Jesus’ teachings contain essential truths and exhibit the highest standards of ethical behavior. The bright light of his vision has illuminated innumerable souls and inspired the creation of many of the greatest artistic masterworks. Yet so many in the world have failed, century after century, to obey his good and wise moral teachings.

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