Title:
Extraordinary Jewish Americans
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ISBN:
9780516206097
Publication Information:
New York : Children's Press, c1998.
Physical Description:
288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Haym Salomon -- Mordecai Manuel Noah -- Judah Philip Benjamin -- Adam Gimbel -- Levi Strauss -- Uriah P. Levy -- Emma Lazarus -- Ellis Island -- Samuel Gompers -- Louis Dembitz Brandeis -- Meyer Guggenheim -- Alfred Stieglitz -- Lillian Wald -- Stephen S. Wise -- Harry Houdini -- Al Jolson -- Irving Berlin -- The Jews who created Hollywood -- Groucho Marx -- Jack Benny -- George Gershwin -- Jewish gangsters -- Louise Nevelson -- Hyman G. Rickover -- Jascha Heifetz -- Barney Ross -- Benny Goodman -- Edwin Land -- Jonas Salk -- Arthur Miller -- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg -- Arnold "Red" Auerbach -- Jewish Americans and the Civil Rights Movement -- Leonard Bernstein -- Betty Friedan -- Henry Kissinger -- Elie Wiesel -- Maurice Sendak -- Beverly Sills -- Ruth Bader Ginsberg -- Dianne Feinstein -- Larry King -- Gloria Steinem -- Sandy Koufax -- Woody Allen -- Judy Blume -- Itzhak Perlman -- Bob Dylan -- Barbra Streisand -- Steven Spielberg -- Judith Resnik -- Mark Spitz -- Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield -- Jerry Seinfeld.
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Summary:
Presents short biographies of more than sixty Jewish Americans who have flourished in careers including law, finance, entertainment, writing, politics, and science.
