This anthology presents more than 40 incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the past century who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world. Included are such writers and artists as Franz Kafka, Primo Levi, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Simone Weil, Jacques Derrida, Arnold Schoenberg, Mark Rothko, Clarice Lispector, Paul Celan, and the Coen Brothers, as well as such figures as Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Rosa Luxemburg, and David Ben-Gurion.