in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:
arts, fashion, and lifestyle:
jeans - levi strauss
modern bras - ida rosenthal
sewing machines - isaac merritt singer
modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers
operetta - jacques offenbach
comic books - stan lee
graphic novels - will eisner
teddy bears - morris and rose michtom
influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen
artists - mark rothko
actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand
comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld
authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley
culture:
esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof
feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg
queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler
international women's day - clara zetkin
principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer
"the new colossus" - emma lazarus
universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin
holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel
workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman
public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald
racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner
political theory - hannah arendt
disability rights - judith heumann
black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza
#metoo movement - jodi kantor
institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld
technology:
word processing computers - evelyn berezin
facebook - mark zuckerberg
console video game system - ralph henry baer
cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper
3d - leonard lipton
telephone - philipp reis
fax machines - arthur korn
microphone - emile berliner
gramophone - emile berliner
television - boris rosing
barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver
secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr
three laws of robotics - isaac asimov
cybernetics - norbert wiener
helicopters - emile berliner
BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny
google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page
VCR - jerome lemelson
fax machine - jerome lemelson
telegraph - samuel finley breese morse
morse code - samuel finley breese morse
bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus
electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi
nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover
the internet - paul baran
icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir
color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes
world's first computer - herman goldstine
modern computer architecture - john von neumann
bittorrent - bram cohen
voip internet telephony - alon cohen
data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv
nemeth code - abraham nemeth
holography - dennis gabor
laser - theodor maiman
instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn
first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus
electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg
drip irrigation - simcha blass
ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro
photo booth - anatol marco josepho
medicine:
pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch
defibrillators - bernard lown
anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin
polio vaccine - jonas salk
test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman
test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal
penicillin - ernst boris chain
pregnancy test - barnhard zondek
antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion
discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter
chemotherapy - paul ehrlich
discovery of prions - stanley prusiner
psychoanalysis - sigmund freud
rubber condoms - julius fromm
birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus
asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein
blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner
acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion
vitamins - caismir funk
technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow
antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg
a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov
homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann
aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun
science:
theory of relativity - albert einstein
theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell
quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz
quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein
microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn
neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria
counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter
genetic engineering - paul berg
discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre
discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias
discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter
discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose
discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez
modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann
stainless steel - hans goldschmidt
gas powered vehicles
interferometer - albert abraham michelson
discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe
proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman
biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof
electron-positron collider - bruno touschek
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Musics
Casey Sabol- Flora and Fauna
Jonsi- Stars in Still Water
Philip Lober- Clockwater
Crywolf- Abbadon
Autoheart- Factories
Hauschka- Subconscious
Mr FijiWiji- Thought Police
Paraphon Tree- Macro Worm
Tender- Handmade Ego
M83- Walkway Blues
Badflower- Move Me
Mat Kearney- Ships in the Night
EDEN- 909
The Postal Service- The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Crywolf- Fallout
Halocraft- Chains for the Sea
Thomas Bergersen- Into Darkness
Message to Bears- Two Finds Two
Needtobreathe- Prisoner
Sadistik- Gallows Hill
Bloodywood- Dana Dan
Oh Hiroshima- Holding Rivers
Leonard Cohen- You Want it Darker
Twisted Jukebox- The Witch and the Butterfly
Astronautalis- The Wondersmith and his Sons
Koste- Satellite
Oceans of Slumber- To the Sea
Roy Blair- California
Nothing but Thieves- Afterlife
OMN- In Quiet Rooms
Everything Everything- The Wheel is Turning Now
Zack Hemsey- Nice to Meet Me
If Only the Trees- Disappear
Lost Society- Stitches
Stormzy- Dreamers Disease
Vancouver Sleep Clinic- Unworthy
ODDKO- Disobey
Sadistik- God Complex
Def Leppard- Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad
Joywave- Nice House
Example- Midnight Run
In This Moment- Half God Half Devil
Des Rocs- Suicide Romantics
Missio- Cry Baby
In This Moment- Mother
The Pretty Reckless- Absolution
Missio- Sing to Me
Crywolf- Fawn
Grandson- Stigmata
Freelance Whales- Broken Horse
Hammock- Things of Beauty Burn
Koda- Angel
Nothing but Thieves- Tempt You
Needtobreathe- Wasteland
Apashe- Fake News
Crywolf- Anachronism
Induction- Queen of Light
The Crucifix- Cursed Birth
Poison- Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Powerwolf- Sanctified with Dynamite
Hammock- Wasted We Stared at the Ceiling
The Correspondents- Inexplicable
ODDKO- Censorship
Nita Strauss- The Wolf You Feed
Cats Never Die - Field
Two Steps from Hell- Away with Your Fairies
DROELOE- Lilypads
Greybloom- Sage
NEFFEX- Bite Me
Cosmo Sheldrake- Wriggle
The Black Dog- Neither/Neither
Dan Deacon- When I Was Done Dying
Marcus Warner- Liberation
Rage Against the Machine- Calm like a Bomb
Arizona- Nostalgic
The Animals- House of the Rising Sun
Nine Inch Nails- The Hand that Feeds
Crywolf- beauty is not a need, she is an ecstasy (respirate)
Two Steps from Hell- Amaria
These have nothing in common except that I like them. Have fun
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