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Polish Jews - they changed their Jewish surnames to Polish [532]
The list of names was just dumb and unhelpful.
Jews don't run the world, but they have had an unusual degree of influence.
By "Jews" you have to define what you mean. I suppose the best handle for this is to say that someone is a Jew if he has some recent Jewish ancestry and identifies with other Jews and they with him/her.
Interestingly, in mid 19th century Russia Jewish factory workers banded together in an attempt to win Jewish emancipation (roughly at the same time as the serfs). This organisation was large and swamped the Social Democratic Party (the communists) numerically when they merged. As power groupings tend to self-perpetuate (like aristos in present-day Britain), the early years of Communist rule in Russia were dominated by mixed Jews.
More recently (4 or so years ago), the World Congress of Jews issued a report on oligarchs in Russia - complaining how their gangsterish approach to business reflected badly on their Jewish heritage. These are people such as Berezovsky, Abramovich and Khodorkovsky.
And then there were high-profile Jewish Polish communist lackeys helping to run Poland for Russia after the Second World War.
BUT
Most Polish communists were actually Polish, and most mixed Jews were not in government or connected with the government. My best friend in London is a Jew (though Christian) and worked alongside me as a schoolteacher. He hardly runs the world - but he does have a rich brother, if that helps! And he was a close acquaintance of Yehudi Menuhin. But that's still not running the world, is it?
Nepotism and networking exist everywhere in the world - perhaps some Jews try harder at networking ... like the Norman aristocracy has done successfully in England for almost a thousand years.