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Most Influential Jews in History ranked

Rankings are usually a mess, but this one at least commits to a number for every entry. Michael Shapiro's The Jewish 100 is the basis for a list making the rounds, and it runs 1 through 100 with flags next to each name showing where they're from. So who takes the top? Slot one goes to Moses, then Jesus of Nazareth, then Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Abraham, Saul of Tarsus (Saint Paul), Karl Marx, Theodor Herzl, Mary and Baruch de Spinoza. David, Anne Frank, The Prophets, Judas Iscariot, Gustav Mahler, Maimonides, Niels Bohr, Moses Mendelssohn, Paul Ehrlich, Rashi, Benjamin Disraeli, Franz Kafka, David Ben-Gurion, Hillel, John von Neumann, Simon Bar Kokhba, Marcel Proust, Mayer Rothschild, Solomon and Heinrich Heine carry the next block. Past that the sheet keeps unfolding: Selman Waksman, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Isaac Luria, Gregory Pincus, Leon Trotsky, David Ricardo, Alfred Dreyfus, Leo Szilard, Mark Rothko, Ferdinand Cohn, Samuel Gompers, Gertrude Stein, Albert Michelson, Philo Judaeus, Golda Meir, The Vilna Gaon, Henri Bergson, The Baal Shem Tov, Felix Mendelssohn, Louis B. Mayer, Judah Halevy, Haym Salomon, Johanan ben Zakkai, Arnold Schoenberg, Emile Durkheim, Betty Friedan, David Sarnoff, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Julius Rosenwald, Casimir Funk, George Gershwin, Chaim Weizmann, Franz Boas, Sabbatai Zevi, Leonard Bernstein, Flavius Josephus, Walter Benjamin, Louis Brandeis, Emile Berliner, Sarah Bernhardt, Levi Strauss, Nahmanides, Menachem Begin, Anna Freud, Queen Esther, Martin Buber, Jonas Salk, Jerome Robbins, Henry Kissinger, Wilhelm Steinitz, Arthur Miller, Daniel Mendoza, Stephen Sondheim, Emma Goldman, Sir Moses Montefiore, Yitzhak Rabin, Boris Pasternak, Harry Houdini, Edward Bernays, Leopold Auer, Groucho Marx, Man Ray, Henrietta Szold, Benny Goodman, Steven Spielberg, Marc Chagall, Bob Dylan, Sandy Koufax and Bernard Berenson. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster close out the hundred. Prophets and rabbis sharing a ranked sheet with physicists, composers, novelists, politicians, athletes and comic book writers is a weird mix on paper, and that's kind of the point. #DavidBenGurion

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Most Influential Jews in History ranked

Rankings are usually a mess, but this one at least commits to a number for every entry. Michael Shapiro's The Jewish 100 is the basis for a list making the rounds, and it runs 1 through 100 with flags next to each name showing where they're from. So who takes the top? Slot one goes to Moses, then Jesus of Nazareth, then Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Abraham, Saul of Tarsus (Saint Paul), Karl Marx, Theodor Herzl, Mary and Baruch de Spinoza. David, Anne Frank, The Prophets, Judas Iscariot, Gustav Mahler, Maimonides, Niels Bohr, Moses Mendelssohn, Paul Ehrlich, Rashi, Benjamin Disraeli, Franz Kafka, David Ben-Gurion, Hillel, John von Neumann, Simon Bar Kokhba, Marcel Proust, Mayer Rothschild, Solomon and Heinrich Heine carry the next block. Past that the sheet keeps unfolding: Selman Waksman, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Isaac Luria, Gregory Pincus, Leon Trotsky, David Ricardo, Alfred Dreyfus, Leo Szilard, Mark Rothko, Ferdinand Cohn, Samuel Gompers, Gertrude Stein, Albert Michelson, Philo Judaeus, Golda Meir, The Vilna Gaon, Henri Bergson, The Baal Shem Tov, Felix Mendelssohn, Louis B. Mayer, Judah Halevy, Haym Salomon, Johanan ben Zakkai, Arnold Schoenberg, Emile Durkheim, Betty Friedan, David Sarnoff, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Julius Rosenwald, Casimir Funk, George Gershwin, Chaim Weizmann, Franz Boas, Sabbatai Zevi, Leonard Bernstein, Flavius Josephus, Walter Benjamin, Louis Brandeis, Emile Berliner, Sarah Bernhardt, Levi Strauss, Nahmanides, Menachem Begin, Anna Freud, Queen Esther, Martin Buber, Jonas Salk, Jerome Robbins, Henry Kissinger, Wilhelm Steinitz, Arthur Miller, Daniel Mendoza, Stephen Sondheim, Emma Goldman, Sir Moses Montefiore, Yitzhak Rabin, Boris Pasternak, Harry Houdini, Edward Bernays, Leopold Auer, Groucho Marx, Man Ray, Henrietta Szold, Benny Goodman, Steven Spielberg, Marc Chagall, Bob Dylan, Sandy Koufax and Bernard Berenson. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster close out the hundred. Prophets and rabbis sharing a ranked sheet with physicists, composers, novelists, politicians, athletes and comic book writers is a weird mix on paper, and that's kind of the point. #DavidBenGurion

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