Jewish historian Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August, won the Pulitzer Prize for its vivid account of WWI’s first month. Selling millions of copies it reshaped views of leadership and war, becoming one of the most influential works of the 20th century.

At Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israeli researchers Nachum Kedar and Haim Rabinowitch transformed cherry tomatoes in the 1970s. By breeding sweeter, firmer varieties with longer shelf life they turned a tiny niche tomato, into a global supermarket staple eaten worldwide.

John de Sequeyra,a Sephardic Jewish physician settled in Williamsburg Virginia in 1745,and became one of colonial Virginia’s leading doctors.Thomas Jefferson credited him with introducing the eating of tomatoes in Virginia, helping popularize the fruit across the colonies.

Roman Jewish communities embraced the tomato far earlier than their non Jewish neighbors. While Northern Europeans feared the fruit as part of the deadly nightshade family, Jewish physicians recognized its health properties, and Jewish merchants actively sold it across Europe.

Louis Brandeis, born to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia, became the first Jewish justice on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1916. A brilliant scholar, he graduated from Harvard Law School with the highest academic average in its history at the time.

Jewish American businessman Alfred S. Bloomingdale, heir to the Bloomingdale’s department store family, was known as a “Father of the credit card.” His Dine and Sign venture merged with Diners Club in 1951, helping shape the modern charge card industry

In 2013,Syrian Jewish master butcher Albert Allaham opened Reserve Cut near Wall Street, and this year opened a new midtown location. Continuing a 200 year family tradition of kosher butchery from Damascus. His vision, prove kosher steak can rival any steakhouse in New York City.

Jewish candy maker David Klein created Jelly Belly beans in 1976. Ronald Reagan who used jelly beans to quit smoking,loved the brand. Jelly Bellies were stocked throughout the White House and Air Force One throughout his presidency.

Kenneth Duberstein, born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, made history in 1988 as the first Jewish White House Chief of Staff. President Reagan trusted him as a close adviser, praising his leadership, strategic skill, and vital contributions to the administration’s success.

Isidor Isaac Rabi, was born in 1898 in Galicia to a Jewish family, and raised in New York. He developed a method to measure atomic nuclei using magnetic resonance. This breakthrough led to MRI technology, transforming medical care. He won the Nobel Prize in 1944.

German Jewish engineer Joseph Strauss had the vision and skill to build San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge. Completed in 1937, it became the world’s longest single span suspension bridge and an American icon.

Born Ephraim Goldberg in Toronto to a Jewish family, Frank Gehry became a world famous architect. His grandmother Leah Caplan inspired his creativity,bringing wood bits from her husband’s hardware store and challah dough for him to build miniature cities on the living room floor.

Joseph Rosefield born into a German Jewish family, helped transform American peanut butter. In the 1920s he developed a process to prevent oil separation, improving its creamy texture. He launched Skippy in the 1930s, an American classic was born.

Lew Grade, born Louis Winogradsky to a Jewish family from Ukraine that immigrated to England brought “The Muppet Show” to life after American networks passed on it. His financial backing in 1976, launched Jim Henson’s beloved Muppets into an international phenomenon.

Jewish producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff backed Sylvester Stallone’s vision when he insisted on playing Rocky. Their belief in the underdog story helped create a Hollywood iconic classic, that won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Abe Rosenberg, a Jewish American liquor entrepreneur, helped popularize single-malt Scotch in the United States. After Prohibition ended in 1933, he secured a wholesale liquor license in New York and imported thousands of bottles, becoming a major figure in the post prohibition Scotch trade.

Jewish chocolatier Rebecca Gomez advertised her chocolate shop in colonial newspapers in 1780. Historians identify her as the only woman then known to manufacture chocolate in the American colonies, making her a remarkable pioneer in both Jewish and American business history.

Born in 1769, Benjamin Gomez became America’s first Jewish bookseller, opening his Manhattan shop at 32 Maiden Lane in 1791. A fourth generation American, his family’s Mill House in Marlboro NY built in 1714, is the oldest surviving Jewish home in North America.

Born in Germany in 1838 to Jewish parents, Emil Ganz became Phoenix’s first Jewish mayor. A pioneering Jewish businessman, he served two terms helping shape the growing Arizona capital.