M. Shapiro "100 Great Jews"

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This book is an attempt to rank a hundred times all the great Jews embarked Michael Shapiro - Hyu York writer and composer. Lightweight, sometimes ironic style, accessible presentation of fairly complex and intricate issues are unquestionable advantages of this book. Of course, not all readers will agree with the thesis of the decisive influence of Judaism on the moral and ethical standards of humanity, on the development of all major world religions. However, the author was able to draw on the pages of the book lively portraits of the most prominent Jews from Abraham and Moses to Freud and Einstein.

Publishing with the consent of the foreign rights holder decided to replace the seven minor, in their view, in the biographies of essays about people, without which it is impossible to imagine the Russian and world science and culture. It - Ilya Mechnikov, Isaac Levitan, Osip Mandelstam, Joseph Brodsky, Leonid Utesov, Arkady Raikin, Mikhail Botvinnik.