While Jews account for only 0.2 percent of the world’s population and no more than 2.5 percent of any country except Israel, they have made some of the greatest contributions to world culture in fields ranging from physics and philosophy to music and art. What accounts for the extraordinary breadth of these achievements? The author locates part of the answer in Jewish culture itself, with its emphasis on literacy, learning, inquiry, and questioning. He profiles thousands of individual Jews’ decisive contributions to fields as diverse as medicine, artificial intelligence, history, economics, business, finance, computing, sports, film, architecture, and more!