Audacious Jewish Lives Vol. 2

The lives ideas and influence of ten audacious Jews - what they did what they believed and their contribution to the Jewish story. Courageous challenging and often misunderstood they left a lasting legacy for humanity. This book has a chapter on each character in an easy-to-read bullet point format which gives a summary of a character's life personality beliefs and contribution to Judaism. Judah - Son of Jacob brother of Joseph Rashi - Medieval French commentator Baruch Spinoza - Radical 17th century thinker The Rothschilds - 19th century bankers and philanthropists Benjamin Disraeli - 19th century British Prime Minister Karl Marx - Revolutionary 19th century economist and socialist Martin Buber - 20th century philosopher Zionist and philosopher Albert Einstein - Brilliant physicist an avowed pacifist and Zionist Abraham Joshua Heschel - 20th century rabbi and a model for compassionate social action Louis Jacobs - Britain's most prolific rabbi and its only world class scholar