Jiro, you're right, there are many Jews in positions of power but those people you've listed, they are just some of the many many many powerful people out there. And of course it makes no sense to deny Jewish power and prominence in culture, they ARE a part of culture. But guess what, white people also have power and prominence. It's very easy to lump Jews together into a large group and say "well, doesn't this look like a lot to you?" So what? So freaking what. Nobody blinks if white men dominates the majority but should Jews happen to exercise and flex their power, it's like "well, well, isn't this interesting."
""It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture." -- Michael Medved, well-known Jewish author and respected film critic. "
Of course there is Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Some of the best writers, musicians, mathematicians, artists, thinkers, radicals, philosophers in America are Jewish and imagine American culture without them.
Jews have had a huge influence on culture in Europe for the past two hundred years. Germany was a backwoods uncultivated country two hundred years ago and it was its Jewish population with their love of books, literature, music, the arts who elevated Germany to a more cultural sophisticated society.
I read this book two years ago and it's one of the most educational books I've ever read and I was profoundly embarrassed that such a huge influence and contribution to European culture as we know it today thanks to its Jewish citizens was never acknowledged in my history major program.
If anyone's interested, it's called "The Pity of it All", I got it at the bookstore of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, it's written by Amos Elon.
