So, nu, who's a Jew ? (part 6)

Submitted by saltysteve on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 16:58

(i) Jews who have shaped our lives - the facts (breast-beating time)

Here is a partial list of Jews who 'made it' in the world at large in the last couple of hundred years, rather than just being known in Jewish circles.

WRITERS Elie Wiesel , Isaac Bashevis Singer , Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Jack Rosenthal, Philip Roth, Leon Uris, Nora Ephron, Erica Jong, Harold Robbins, Hugh Schonfield, Neil Simon, Norman Mailer.

ACTORS, ENTERTAINERS AND PERSONALITIES Edward G Robinson, John Garfield, Lee J Cobb, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Robin Williams, Melvyn Douglas, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Lawrence Harvey, Winona Ryder, Gene Wilder , Maureen Lipman, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Benjamin, Elliot Gould, Michael Douglas, Anouk Aimee, Sarah Bernhardt, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Barbra Streisand, Alma Cogan, Helen Shapiro, Milton Berle, George Burns, Danny Kaye, Lenny Bruce, The Marx Brothers, Bud Flanagan, Sid Caesar, Woody Allen, Harrison Ford, Mel Brooks, Sophie Tucker, Dinah Shore, Eddie Fisher, Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Topol, Billy Crystal, Marty Feldman, Jerry Lewis, Sid James, Jack Benny, Frankie Vaughan, Bob Dylan, Elkie Brookes, Neil Diamond, Leonard Cohen, Harry Houdini, Howard Werth, Peter Green, Paul Kossoff, Paula Abdul, Jackie Mason, Theda Bara, Fanny Brice, Bernard Bresslaw, Bernie Winters, Alexie Sayle, Ben Elton, Joan Rivers, Lionel Blair, Marjorie Proops, Claire Rayner, Uri Geller, Ruby Wax, Dani Behr, Tania Bryer, Muriel Gray, Ron Moody, Warren Mitchell, David Baddiel, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy (Mr Spock), William Shatner (Captn Kirk), Saatchi & Saatchi, David Copperfield, David Suchet, John Suchet, Lou Reed, Mark Knopfler, Goldie Hawn, Vanessa Feltz, Stephen Fry, Debra Winger, Vidal Sassoon, Linda McCartney, Marc Bolan, David Schneider, John Bluthal, Miriam Karlin, Miriam Margolyes, Janet Suzman, David Kossof.

PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS The Warner Brothers, WIlliam Fox, Louis B Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis Selznick, Adolph Zukor, Jack and Harry Cohn, Jesse Lasky, Lew Grade, Lord Delfont, Steven Spielberg, Sam Wannamaker, Michael Winner, David O Selznick, Joseph Mankiewicz, Alexander Korda, Billy Wilder, Roman Polanski.

POLITICS Benjamin Disraeli , Sir Herbert Samuel , Anatoly Scharansky , Leslie Hore-Belisha , Manny Shinwell , Leon Blum, Leon Brittain, Lord Young, Nigel Lawson, Gerald Kaufmann, Malcolm Rifkind, Michael Howard, Greville Janner.

ECONOMICS Milton Friedman , The Rothschilds, The Montefiores, The Samuels, the Sassoons, The Montefiores, The Goldsmiths, The Montagus, The Mocattas, George Soros.

MUSIC AND ART Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern, Yehudi Menuhin, Sir George Henschel , Gustav Mahler, Mendelsohn, Offenbach, Georges Bizet, Benny Goodman, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Lionel Bart, Jerome Kern, Larry Adler , Steven Sondheim, Sammy Cahn, Jacob Epstein, Marc Chagall.

SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY Albert Einstein , William Herschel , Neils Bohr , Albert Michelson ,Heinrich Hertz, James Franck, Paul Ehrlich, Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Isidor Rabi, Claude Levi-Strauss, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Buber , Karl Marx , Heinrich Heine, Spinoza, Sigmund Freud , Alfred Adler, Jonas Salk.

SPORT Harold Abrahams, Mark Spitz, Gary Jacobs, Ronnie Rosenthal, Joel Stransky, Phil Cohn (as we're struggling in this category, I'm putting forward my grandfather, a useful boxer in the '20s in the East End, I'm told, and the first and last time he'll ever be written about).

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