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Learn more about 100 Most Influential Jews of all times - from Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud to Albert Einstein and Woody Allen. Their life, views, and careers illustrated with drawings and photographs. Features.:.; Fully illustrated with drawings and photographs.; Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases.; Written in clear and concise English.; Designed for optimal navigation on PDA, Smartphone, Tablet, and desktop devices.; Formatted to display on all electronic devices including Smartphones and Mobile Devices with a small display. Table of Contents.:.; Philosophers & Theologians.; Scientists.; Writers.; Musicians.; Politicians/Leaders/Public Figures.; Artists.; Fashion designers.; Performance Artists.; Sport. Philosophers & Theologians. Hillel (ca. 70 B.C.E.-10 C.E.) - theologian and religious leader, the founder. of a dynasty of Sages. Philo of Alexandria (Philo Judaeus) (20 B.C.E.-40 C.E.) - hellenized Jewish. philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt, included in his philosophy both Greek. philosophy and Judaism. Flavius Josephus (ca.38-ca.100 C.E.) - historian, recorded the Destruction of. Jerusalem. Rashi (1040-1105) - rabbinical commentator. Maimonides (1135-1204) - rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Spain, Morocco. and Egypt during the Middle Ages. Isaac Luria (1534-1572) - kabbalist. Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) - Dutch philosopher of Jewish origin, considered. one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy and one of the definitive. ethicists. The Baal Shem Tov (1700-1790) - religious reformer, mystical rabbi considered. to be the founder of Hasidic Judaism. Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) - German Jewish philosopher attributed with the. renaissance of European Jews. Karl Marx (1818-1883) - philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. Sigmund Freud (1856-1936) - neurologist and psychiatrist, commonly referred. to as "the father of psychoanalysis". Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941) - philosopher, interested in metaphys more...

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In Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, Lynne Cheney re-creates the years after World War II in a small town on the high plains of the West. Portraying an era that started with the Ink Spots on the Zenith Radio in her family's living room and ended with Elvis on the jukebox at the local canteen, she tells of coming of age in a time when the country seemed in control of its destiny and individual Americans in charge of theirs. She describes Casper, Wyoming, where she met a young man named Dick Cheney, and remembers her hometown as a place where the future seemed as bright as the blue sky and life's possibilities as boundless as the prairie. It was also a place where a pioneer heritage prevailed, and Cheney traces the paths of forebears who journeyed westward, strengthened against adversity by a bedrock belief that they would find a better life. more...

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The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness. more...

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Edward J. Renehan portrays the grand idealism, heroic bravery, and reckless abandon that Theodore Roosevelt both embodied and bequeathed to his children, and the tragic fulfillment of that legacy on the battlefields of World War I. more...

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