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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 ...
The History of the Jewish People The Jewish Agency; The Avalon Project at Yale Law School The Middle East 1916–2001: A Documentary Record; Historical Maps and Atlases at Dinur Center; Crash Course in Jewish History (Aish) The Year by Year History of the Jewish People – by Eli Birnbaum; Ministry of Foreign Affairs. History page; Jewish ...
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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 ...
Angela Warnick Buchdahl, American Reform Jewish Rabbi, converted to Orthodox Judaism at age 21. She was not raised within the Buddhist faith; however, her mother is Buddhist so by Orthodox Jewish law she was not considered Jewish, but she was raised Jewish and so by Reform Jewish law she has always been Jewish.
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
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924–2014), leader of the Jewish Renewal movement; Joseph Telushkin (1948–), American rabbi, screenwriter, lecturer and bestselling author [7] (non-denominational) Arthur Waskow (1933–), leader of the Jewish Renewal movement; Sherwin Wine (1928–2007), U.S. founder of Society for Humanistic Judaism
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: