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Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [1] at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world's population, meaning their share of winners is 110 times their ...
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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. People who played important roles in the definition, historical development and growth of the modern Zionist movement: A–B Sarah Aaronsohn (1890–1917), born and died in Ottoman Syria/Ottoman Empire (now Israel), member of the Nili Jewish spy ring (working for the British) Gershon Agron (1890s ...
Melchizedek King of Salem at the time of Abraham; Miriam, prophetess, sister of Moses and Aaron; Moses, adopted by Pharaoh's daughter in Egypt, leader of the Exodus from Egypt received the Torah or Law of Moses. Nathan, prophet in time of King David; Neriah a prophet, and his son Baruch the scribe of Jeremiah
American three-time Academy Award–nominated film and television actress, editor, producer and director Mother [621] Eddie Carmel: 1936–1972 American entertainer known as "The Jewish Giant" [622] Joan Collins: 1933– British actress and author Father [623] Jerry Douglas: 1932–2021 American television actress The Young and the Restless ...
David Cohen (1887–1972), rabbi, talmudist, philosopher and kabbalist, Jewish ascetic who accepted a Nazirite vow at the outbreak of WWI; Mordechai Eliyahu (1929–2010), former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel; Menachem Froman (1945–2013), Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi and a peacemaker and negotiator with close ties to Palestinian religious ...
The Jews of Europe and the United States gained success in the fields of science, culture and the economy. Among those generally considered the most famous were Albert Einstein and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Many Nobel Prize winners at this time were Jewish, as is still the case. [180] Map of the Jewish diaspora:
Ayya Khema, Buddhist teacher (born Jewish) Adolf Lasson. Georg Lasson; Johannes Pfefferkorn, antisemitic controversialist (born Jewish) Friedrich Adolf Philippi; Johann Peter Spaeth (Moses Germanus Ashkenazi), a Christian German Proselyte; Edith Stein, canonized nun, Holocaust victim (born Jewish)