In this book, an attempt to rank one hundred great Jews of all time was made by Michael Shapiro, a New York publicist and composer. The light, sometimes ironic style, and accessible presentation of rather complex and intricate problems are the undoubted advantages of this book. Of course, not all readers will be able to agree with the thesis about the decisive influence of Judaism on the moral and ethical standards of humanity, on the formation of all the world's leading religions. However, the author managed to draw on the pages of the book living portraits of the most prominent Jews from Abraham and Moses to Freud and Einstein.