Challenge and Change: History of the Jews in America
Links to Personalities-Individuals
(Listed alphabetically)
Please note: References to encyclopedia entries and general sources are not listed below. In addition to the links listed with an individual, please search for individuals in these general reference sources: Jewish Encyclopedia, American Jewish Historical Society's Jewish Museum in Cyberspace, Jewish Virtual Library,
American Jewish Heroes & Heroines, & About.com.
***A citation following an individual's name denotes which book and which page[s] that individual is mentioned.
For example, Bella Abzug is mentioned in Book 3, pages 68 and 75 and is noted next to her name as (3:68, 75).
Norfolk's First Jew: Jacob Abrahams by Irwin M. Berent
http://www.jewishhistoryusa.com/
Nearly a decade ago, after discovering a centuries-old weathered deed involving someone named Jacob Abrahams, Irwin Berent, a historian, genealogist, writer, archivist, and lecturer, established Abrahams as the earliest known Jewish resident in Southeastern Virginia. No longer would international trader Moses Myers, one of America's first millionaires, who arrived in Norfolk in 1787 and whose 200-year-old Georgian residence still stands, be recognized as the area's first Jew. Read this article online.
Bella Abzug (3:68, 75)
http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/abzug/bio.html
Bella Abzug, 1920-1998 was a lawyer and politician. Read her life story, view a timeline and obtain additional bibliographical material about this amazing women at the Jewish Women's Archive web site.
Jacob Adler-The Great Eagle by Gad Nahshon (2:48)
http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0710/jpn0710t.htm
A short biography of Jacob Adler, the great Yiddish director-actor, from the Jewish Post of New York.
Stella Adler-A Woman For All the Seasons (1901-1992) by Gad Nahshon http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0509/jpn0509g.htm
This is Stella Adler's obituary from the Jewish Post of New York. Stella Adler was the daughter of Yiddish director-actor Jacob Adler. Stella Adler was one of the leading teachers for actors in the US . See also The Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
Sholom Aleichem (Shlomo Rabinovitz) (2:35)
http://www.sholom-aleichem.org
Sholom Aleichem was one of Yiddish literature's most beloved authors. Born in Russia in 1859 as Solomon Rabinovitz, he died in New York in 1916. He created many memorable characters, including Tevye (who you may know from the adaptation of his work in "Fiddler on the Roof"), Motel "The Cantor's Son", Menachem-Mendl and many others. This web site is dedicated to his life and work.
Bernard Baruch
http://www.myetv.org/television/productions/legacy/laureates/Baruch%20Bernard%20M.html
Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) played a prominent role in Democratic Party politics throughout much of the first half of the twentieth century. A native of New York City, Baruch gradually amassed a personal fortune through shrewd investments on Wall Street. He later used part of his wealth to support the Democratic Party and Democratic campaigns, including Woodrow Wilson's successful presidential campaign in 1912. Read also Bernard and Belle Baruch. And listen to Bernard Baruch's: Calls for international control of atomic weapons.
"New York City's First Jewish Mayor": Abraham Beame (3:68)
http://www.richmondhillhistory.org/abeame.html
Read this short biography of Abraham Beame. See also the Abraham D. Beame Collection LaGuardia and Wagner Archives LaGuardia Community College/CUNY.
The Belmont Family History (2:18)
http://www.belcourtcastle.com/history/august_belmont.html
The history of August Belmont and his family is on the site for Belcourt Castle, the family mansion in Newport, RI. Also note: the Belmont Stakes are named after August Belmont, a financier in New York politics and society.
Irving Berlin (3:11, 34, 35)
http://www.parlorsongs.com/bios/berlin/iberlin.asp
Read Berlin's biography on this site, Parlor Songs, which is dedicated to the acquisition and rescue of the historic musical manuscripts that are a part of the popular music scene in America. Browse the Library of Congress' online exhibition of "God Bless America". Mr. Berlin was a producer, composer, writer, lyricist, performer, theatre owner/operator. This article sheds additional information about the life of Berlin The Americanization of Irving Berlin by Stefan Kanfer, City Journal, Spring 2002.
Jacob Birnbaum and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry by Yossi Klein Halevi
http://www.azure.org.il/17-klein.htm
In the early spring of 1964, an imposing man in his late thirties, tall, with a Vandyke beard, a British accent, and a Russian-style fur hat, appeared on the campus of Yeshiva University in upper Manhattan, and began knocking on dormitory doors. For weeks, he went from room to room, soliciting support for a cause of which few people had yet heard: Saving the Jews of the Soviet Union. Read about Jacob Birnbaum, the founding of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, and how this helped not only to save over one million Soviet Jews but also how it shaped American Jews into a political force not seen before in the United States. This article first appeared in Azure, #17, Spring 2004.
"The People's Attorney": The Life of Louis D. Brandeis, 1856-1941 (3:27) http://library.brandeis.edu/specialcollections/specialevents/Brandeis
Online exhibit about the life of Louis D. Brandeis, sponsored by Brandeis University Libraries, 1999. To enter the exhibit, select a category from the menu: Select a Category; Introduction; Youth; Career in Boston ; Zionism; Family Life. The full text of his speech "The Jewish Problem and How to Solve It" is online (scroll down to the title). See also: Louis D. Brandeis and American Zionism.
Fanny Brice (3:11)
http://www.brice.nl/menu/index.html
This site is managed by Wim Sminia who is a longtime fan of the actress Fanny Brice. Browse through this exhibition of artifacts from the life of Ms. Brice. See also:Funny Girl Debunked: Fanny Brice Facts by John Kenrick as well as the New York Times obituary of Ms. Brice.
Susan Brownmiller
http://www.susanbrownmiller.com/
Learn about Susan Brownmiller, one of the cofounders of the National Organization for Women, on her own website. Also, read a wonderful, in-depth interview with Susan Brownmiller at Bookreporter.com.
The Last Days of Lepke Buchalter by Allan May (3:13)
http://www.crimemagazine.com/buchalter.htm
It was Thursday, March 2, 1944, and time was running out in Sing Sing prison for Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and four of his henchmen who were facing execution with him. Condemned to the electric chair with Lepke were Emmanuel "Mendy" Weiss and Louis Capone, for the murder of candy store owner Joseph Rosen; and Joseph Palmer and Vincent Sallami, for the murder of Brooklyn detective Joseph Miccio. From the website of Crime Magazine-An Encyclopedia of Crime.
Abraham Cahan- Biography Project by Ivan Lupov (2:35, 45, 47, 49, 57)
http://history.hanover.edu/reference/336cahan1.htm
A short biography by Ivan Lupov while he was a student at Hanover College.
Noam Chomsky
This is the official website of political activist Noam Chomsky. A more resourceful website can be found at Noam Chomsky Resources.
David Dubinsky: A Life With Social Significance (2:52, 54, 57)
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1994/10/art5full.pdf
Drawing on his immigrant heritage, David Dubinsky envisioned a worldwide socioeconomic role for unions. His ideals were a major force in molding the U.S. labor movement. He was President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and was inducted into the Labor Hall of Fame. This article was written by Gus Tyler, who was the Assistant President of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union. It appeared in Monthly Labor Review, October 1994.
I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp (1:67-68, 77) http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/389/calchi.html
This online article was researched and written by Pat Calchi, a student in Professor Catherine Lavender's History/Women's Studies 389 (Themes in American Women's History) course, The Department of History and The Program in Women's Studies, The College of Staten Island of The City University of New York, Fall Semester 2000. See also: How Wyatt Earp Got Buried in a Jewish Cemetery.
"Lady Sadie" Earp by Carol Mitchell (1:67-68, 77)
http://home.earthlink.net/~knuthco1/recent/LadySadie.htm
This is another online article about Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp. "Lady Sadie" Originally published in True West, February/March 2001 issue. True West was launched in 1953 by the legendary Joe "Hosstail" Small in Austin, Texas and is a popular history publication.
Albert Einstein: Einstein's Revolution
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/revolution/index.php
Albert Einstein was daring, wildly ingenious, passionately curious. He saw a beam of light and imagined riding it; he looked up at the sky and envisioned that space-time was curved. Albert Einstein reinterpreted the inner workings of nature, the very essence of light, time, energy and gravity. His insights fundamentally changed the way we look at the universe—and made him the most famous scientist of the 20th century.
We know Einstein as a visionary physicist, but he was also a passionate humanitarian and anti-war activist. Born a German Jew, Einstein truly considered himself a citizen of the world. His celebrity status enabled him to speak out—on global issues from pacifism to racism, anti-Semitism to nuclear disarmament.
Einstein's Revolution was originally exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History, New York and is now made available online by the AMNH.
Biographical summary of Moses Jacob Ezekiel
Life of a Jewish military cadet and Confederate soldier who became a world-reknowned sculptor. Excerpted from Not For Fame Or Reward: Virginia Military Institute's (VMI's) Civil War Soldiers and Sailors.
Letter from Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal, Chicago, October 1891 (2:65)
http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/genealogy/text/guides/felsenb.txt
Copy of original letter from Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal to his nephew, Adolph ben Marcus ben Simon ben Isaac ben Jacob ben Isaac Felsenthal, providing some notes on the history of their family. (Found on a genealogy web site.)
Edna Ferber
http://www.apl.org/history/ferber/
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber spent her childhood in Appleton, WI and used it as the setting for her early stories The Homely Heroine and A Bush League Hero. Ferber was a prolific novelist, her work the inspiration for numerous Broadway plays and Hollywood films. Among her best known works are So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924), Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace. This site provides selective sources from the Appleton Library. Here are 4 more works by Edna Ferber available online: Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber (fiction); Emma McChesney & Co by Edna Ferber (fiction); Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber (fiction); One Basket by Edna Ferber (fiction). See also Edna Ferber -and the James Adams Floating Theatre.
Fischer and Levin Family History
http://mefischer1.home.comcast.net/
Fischer & Levin family history-A compilation of genealogical, anecdotal and historical information on the families of Martin E. and Judith L. Fischer by Martin Fischer. This online exhibit traces the Fischer and Levin families, from their lives in Europe and up until the present. Photos and original documents help to retell their story.
The Leo Frank Case Compiled by Charles Pou (3:8)
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/leofrank.htm
This is a chronology taken primarily from reports in The Atlanta Constitution and The Atlanta Journal by Charles Pou who was attending the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia. Also view the essay Leo Frank Lynchers, which claims to have identifications of most involved in the lynching of Leo Frank.
Also read the chapter The Mystery of the Pencil Factory by Sidney Sutherland. This etext is from Ten Real Murder Mysteries--Never Solved! New York: London G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press; 1929. Also see "The Case of Leo Frank- Little Mary Phagan" by Russell Aiuto.
The Franklin Brothers of San Diego By Norton B. Stern
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/75summer/franklin.htm
Lewis Abraham Franklin and his brother Maurice Abraham Franklin were prominent citizens of San Diego in the 1850s, and though there has been material published on their hotel, the Franklin House, San Diego's first three-story building, little has been known about the principals themselves. A good deal of information has been available on the English and Canadian relatives of Lewis and Maurice, but the lives of the California brothers have not been considered heretofore. Read this article, which is from The Journal of San Diego History, Summer 1975, Volume 21, Number 3. The author is Dr. Norton B. Stern . He is the founder and editor of the Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly, published by the Southern California Jewish Historical Society, and is a lecturer, author and collector in the field of Western Jewish history.
Betty Friedan (3:59-60)
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/interviews/friedan.htm
Interview with Betty Friedan by Ben Wattenberg, host and essayist for the PBS show The First Measured Century. Additional biographical information is available here. Betty Friedan helped to establish the National Organization for Women, go to NOW to learn more. Betty Friedan was also instrumental in establishing the National Women's Political Caucus as well as the National Women's Political Caucus.
John Garfield (Jacob Julius Garfinkle)
http://themave.com/Garfield/index.htm
This site offers a look at the actor of stage and screen, as well as his films.
George and Ira Gershwin (3:11)
Best known as the songwriting team of the Jazz era, read about the Gershwin brother's fascinating history on the official Gershwin website. See also Who Could Ask for Anything More? A Century of George Gershwin by Brandi Parisi, The Gershwin Legacy, and George Gershwin. If you are into the "CSI" television series, you may enjoy this article and follow interview: What Caused George Gershwin's Untimely Death by Gregory D Sloop and an NPR interview with Dr. Sloop entitled Gershwin's Death Revisited.
Leonard Goldenson
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/goldensonle/goldensonle.htm
A short biography of media executive Leonard Goldenson, founder of the ABC television network, from the Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) in Chicago. You can also listen to NPR's obituary for Goldenson.
Arthur Goldberg: Proof of the American Dream (3:68)
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1997/01/art5full.pdf
Through his career as lawyer, labor leader, soldier, jurist, and ambassador, Arthur Goldberg was devoted to serving the American people and the Nation. His distinguished life was honored with his induction into the U.S. Department of Labor's Hall of Fame on December 12, 1995. Goldberg was the principal architect of the 1995 AFL-CIO merger. This article was written by Edward B. Shils, J.D., LL.M, Ph.D, George W. Taylor Emeritus Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and appeared in Monthly Labor Review, January 1997.
The Goldbergs
http://www.tvparty.com/vaultgold.html
The Goldbergs was one of the most successful entertainment ventures ever, a radio and television program that reached across every medium. It all hinged on one woman - Gertrude Berg, a true multi-media pioneer. This site also has some video clips from the series. See also The Goldbergs.
Emma Goldman (2:35, 57)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman/
Companion site to the PBS documentary on Emma Goldman. This site includes a timeline of events, transcripts from the broadcast, eyewitness interviews, scanned images of original documents, maps, photographs, and a teacher's guide. See also: "Red Emma" Goldman's Jewish Anarchism.
Emma Goldman: Anarchy Archives-An Online Research Center on the History and Theory of Anarchism (2:35, 57)
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/Goldmanarchive.html
This site has extensive sources on Emma Goldman, including: Biography; Collected Works; Bibliography; Commentary; and Graphics.
Emma Goldman Papers (2:35, 57)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940, she continued to participate in the social and political movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War. The site contains many primary documents available online as well as an online exhibit.
Luis Moses Gomez 1660 -1740
http://www2.jewishgen.org/jhscj/feature.html
Luis Moses Gomez was born with the proverbial "silver spoon in his mouth", in Madrid, Spain in 1660, to a very wealthy secret Jew, Isaac Gomez. Read his biography online and follow Gomez from his birth in Spain to his immigration to the United States. This article originally appeared in the Jewish Historical Society of Central New Jersey.
Samuel Gompers (2:52, 54, 57)
http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/index.html
The Samuel Gompers Papers contains biographical, photographical, and other related information about Samuel Gompers and is sponsored by the University of Maryland-College Park, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the AFL-CIO. The US Navy commissioned a ship which it named Samuel Gompers which you can also read about.
The First Jews in America-History of a Family: The Gratz Family (1:39, 44-45, 46, 47, 78)
http://www.willyancey.com/brill01.htm
Online article about the Gratz family, written originally in German by Rabbi Bernhard Brilling and translated by Irene Newhouse in January 1996.
The Tigers' 'Hammerin' Hank Greenberg by Laurie J. Marzejka (3:12-13, 34)
http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=129&category=sports
Hank Greenberg was born on New York's Lower East Side on Jan. 11, 1911, to David and Sarah Greenberg. His parents, both Romanian immigrants, moved to a Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx when Hank was six. They sent him to Hebrew school and kept a kosher home. They had high hopes for their son. Read more about this Hall of Fame Jewish ballplayer. (This article is from the Detroit News Library.) Greenberg's statistics can be viewed at Baseball Almanac. See also: The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg.
Ruth Ellen Gruber
http://www.giotto.org/jesse/gruber.html
This site contains a short biography of Ruth Gruber as well as a photographic essay of abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Europe. This site is maintained by Marc Servin, Director, the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy. See also: "Mother" Ruth's Journeys and Ruth Gruber's Exodus: Part II .
Listen to a NPR interview: "Ruth Gruber's Travels 'Inside of Time' Writer and Advocate Marks Latest Chapter in Remarkable Life". Also available: The Story of Ruth: The Exodus to Palestine As Told Through the Dispatches of a Jewish-American Journalist.
Ben Hecht (3:30-31)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bhecht.htm
American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, novelist, "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", who received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films. As a prolific storyteller, Ben Hecht authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays. See also: We Will Never Die Pageant (March 9, 1943) and Ben Hecht's "A Flag is Born": A Play That Changed History by Dr. Rafael Medoff.
Lillian Hellman
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/hellman_l.html
The biographical information on this famous writer comes from the PBS series, American Masters.
Abraham Joshua Heschel: Our Generation's Teacher by Reuven Kimelman(3:50, 54-55, 57, 58, 60 )
http://www.crosscurrents.org/heschel.htm
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), served as Professor of Jewish Ethics and Mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America from 1945 to 1972. Read this article by one of his former students, Reuven Kimelman, a professor of classical rabbinic literature at Brandies University.
Sidney Hillman (1887 - 1946)
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/history/history/hillman.cfm
Sidney Hillman was the founder of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (now UNITE!) and its president from 1914 to 1946, and he invented trade unionism as we know it today. Read a short biography on the AFLCIO site. Also, see the article at the UNITE! site.
Samuel Myer Isaacs: Teacher of New York City Jews by Rabbi Shmuel Singer (1:57) http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/jo/tpersonality/isaacs.html
This online article offers a short biography of Samuel Myer Isaacs 5564/1804--5638/1878. This article originally appeared in the Jewish Observer and is also available in book form in the ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications Judaiscope Series.
The Reform Jew Who Changed Truman's Mind: Eddie Jacobson
http://www.uahc.org/rjmag/998sam.html
If it hadn't been for a little-known Reform Jew from Kansas City, Missouri, there might not have been a State of Israel. Read this essay on Eddie Jacobson and his relation with President Harry Truman. This essay was written by Samuel A. Montague, a member of the New Reform Temple in Kansas City, MO, is author of Harry and Me, a dramatization of the Truman-Jacobson story. This article originally appeared in Reform Judaism magazine, Fall 1988.
Al Jolson
This website is dedicated to the man who was known as The World's Greatest Entertainer, a superstar before the word was coined, and whose musical heritage created much of the entertainment industry we know today. With text, photos, music and more, this is the source to learn about Al Jolson, the master showman of American theatre, whose career spanned fifty years of American Music history. If you have never heard Jolson, you are in for a treat, as many of these pages contain excerpts from some of his most popular or memorable songs. As Jolie would have said, "You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
Jacob Joseph-A Chief Rabbi for New York by Rabbi Shmuel Singer
http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/jo/tpersonality/rjj.html
This article explores the ill-fated struggle to unite New York Jewry under one leader, Rabbi Jacob Joseph, to serve as a Chief Rabbi. Read also this essay: Twilight Years of Rabbi Jacob Joseph by Joseph Adler, originally published in the Jewish Frontier 2000.
Mordecai Kaplan, The Emergence of Reconstructionism: An Evolving American Judaism, 1922-1945 by Reena Sigman Friedman (3:5, 17-19, 21, 22, 34, 71)
This biographical essay of Mordecai Kaplan and the establishment of the Reconstructive Movement.
Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminsky)
http://www.angelfire.com/film/dannykaye/DannyKaye.htm
This site is also by a fan of the actor and provides a biography and extensive listing of his acting career.
Henry Kissinger at Large (3:68)
http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/show_1138.html
Aired 8/19/2004
Think Tank, with Ben Wattenberg, a weekly PBS program, was joined by one of the towering figures of 20th century American Foreign Policy, Dr. Henry Kissinger. He has served as Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford, as well as National Security Advisor during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War. Throughout the past three decades he has played an important role as an advisor to successive US presidential administrations, currently serving on the Defense Policy Board. His thoughts on America's role in the world, though invariably controversial, are never ignored if not always heeded. Read the full transcript.
Herbert H. Lehman
http://www.medaloffreedom.com/HerbertLehman.htm
Herbert H. Lehman (1878-1963) entered politics in 1928. Franklin Roosevelt, aspiring to be Governor of New York, convinced Lehman to join him on the Democratic Party ticket as a candidate for the office of lieutenant Governor. Lehman spent the next 35 years of his life dedicated to public service. Read the remarks which were delivered at the Presentation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Posthumously to Herbert H. Lehman, January 28, 1964.
Marlene (Dietrich) and Me (Joanne Leonard) by Joanne Leonard
http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/sfonline/cf/leonard.htm
This is an autobiography of Joanne Leonard from S&F Online, a biannual, multimedia, online-only journal of feminist theories and women's movements. It provides public access to the Barnard Center for Research on Women's most innovative programming by providing written transcripts, audio and visual recordings, and links to relevant intellectual and social action networks. Joanne Leonard is a professor in the School of Art and Design and in the women's studies program at the University of Michigan.
The Jewish Commodore: Uriah Phillips Levy (1:41-42, 47)
http://www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/beller.cgi/sec8/commodore
This article, a short biography, written by William Bryk, originally appeared in the New York Press, which labels itself New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper.
Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy, USN, (1792-1862) (1:41-42, 47)
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-l/u-p-levy.htm
Online article from the Department of the Navy-Naval Historical Center. Click "USS Levy (DE-162)", a United States naval vessel which was named in honor of Commodore Levy.
Walter Lippmann
http://www.podmonkeyx.com/Default.asp
Walter Lippmann was a widely read and regarded political and social commentator for most of this century. He wrote or collaborated on 30 books and was read in 250 newspapers in 26 countries. His detached observations were valued by journalists, politicians, presidents, and weekly readers.
Sigmund Livingston - Father of the Anti Defamation League
pnm://www.wglt.org/audio/031009siglivingston.mp3
Over 90 years ago, a group of prominent American Jews formed the Anti-Defamation League to combat the rampant Anti-Semitism of the day. Chief among them was a man from Bloomington. WGLT's Charlie Schlenker reports on the nearly forgotten founder of the ADL and the anniversary of the league... Run Time 5:14.
Louisiana's Jewish Community
http://www.sec.state.la.us/archives/jewish/JEWISH-1.HTM
This online exhibit features the following individuals: Judah Touro and Judah P. Benjamin; Gustave Katz and Sydney J. Besthoff, The K & B Story; The Sternbergs of Baton Rouge, The Goudchaux / Maison Blanche Story; Longue Vue Gardens, Edith and Edgar B. Stern; Associate Justice Walter F. Marcus, Judge Alvin B. Rubin, Judge Miriam G. Waltzer; Senator Jay Dardenne, Gus Weill, Stanley"Skip" Bertman.
Minnie F. Low
http://www.ajhs.org/publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=227
An Attempt to Americanize the Yishuv: Judah L. Magnes in Mandatory Palestine by Daniel P. Kotzin (2:56, 65, 68 & 3:7)
http://iupjournals.org/israel/iss5-1.html
Judah L. Magnes (1877-1948) was the first Chancellor (and later President) of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the leading proponent of the bi-national plan for Palestine, as well as at the very center of Jewish public life in Mandatory Palestine. Read this article by Daniel Kotzin, faculty member of the History Department at Kutztown University, which originally appeared in the journal Israel Studies, volume 5 number 1, Spring 2000. Also available is Judah L. Magnes' obituary from the New York Times, October 28,1948.
West Point Rites Honor Hero Commissioner Colonel David 'Mickey' Marcus (2:76-77) http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/colmick2.html
This article is on the 33rd annual Colonel David (Mickey) Marcus Memorial Service commemorating him and other American volunteers who died in Israel 's War of Independence was held May 2nd, 1999 , at the United States Military Academy . Marcus, who had served as Correction's First Deputy Commissioner and then Commissioner under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, later became a U.S. and Israeli military hero. This article appears on the web site of the New York Correction History Society. See also: Mickey Marcus: Israel's American General.
The Golda Meir Center (2:68-69, 75)
Articles on this site include: Golda Meir: An Outline of a Unique Life-A Chronological Survey of Golda Meir's Life and Legacy; Selected Quotes from Golda Meir; selected English Bibliography; her life in Denver with a virtual tour of her home, and other articles of interest. This site is by Norman Provizer, Director of the Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership at Metropolitan State College of Denver, and Claire Wright, Research Assistant. See also: Golda Meir's American Roots.
The Moise Family (1:46-47, 70)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cmbs/moisedata.html
The Moise family is descended from Abraham Moise, who left from France and settled in the Caribbean. There he met Sarah, a local, and married. When war broke out in the region between the French aristocratic class and the slaves, around 1791, the family moved with four small sons to America. They settled in South Carolina. To learn more about family members, click on the following links: Abraham and Sarah Moise; Hyam Moise, Sr.; Abraham and Caroline Mois; Abraham and Caroline Moise, 2; Theodore Sidney Moise; Charles Henry and Theodora Sidney Moise; Charles Henry and Theodora Sidney Moise, 2; Abraham and Blanche Moise; Moise Gallery. This web site is the creation of Christine Shannon, who was interested in learning about the genealogy of her family.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (3:29, 46)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX97.html
Henry Morgenthau Jr. left Cornell University without graduating and, deciding to become a farmer. As it turned out, the Morgenthaus were now neighbors of the Roosevelt's, and the two families became close friends. When Roosevelt became governor of New York in 1928, he appointed Morgenthau the chairman of his agricultural advisory commission. When Roosevelt was elected President in 1932, Morgenthau became his Treasury Secretary. From the PBS series: The American Experience. See also: History of the Treasury- Secretaries of the Treasury.
Rebecca Isaiah Moses
http://www.serve.com/rim/
This website about Rebecca Moses, includes detailed biographical information and some family heirlooms. Pay special attention to the posting of a note about Jews and slavery-a must see portion of the website. (Note: There will be some other family heirlooms added to the site shortly.) This article is written by Rebecca's great-, great-, great-granddaughter Judith Shanks. Support for research on this page was provided by a Senior Research Award by Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Zero Mostel (Samuel Joel Mostel)
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Lobby/4320/
The stage and screen actor Samuel Joel Mostel was born on February 28, 1915 in Brooklyn, NY. One of eight children, he was raised in the Lower East Side's Jewish community. Read more about his life on this site which was organized by a fan.
Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York (1:40)
http://www.yale.edu/yuag/myer/
This is an historical overview of the life of silversmith Myer Myers. Browse the time line to learn about historical events that lead up to and and surround his life work.
Josef Nassy-Images of Internment
http://www.ushmm.org/nassy/index1.html
Josef Nassy (1904-1976), a Black expatriate artist of Jewish descent, was one of 2,000 civilians holding American passports who were confined in German internment camps during World War II. While imprisoned for three years, Nassy created a unique visual diary of more than 200 paintings and drawings. View this online exhibit.
Mordecai Manuel Noah (1:40-41, 47, 49)
http://olivercowdery.com/gathering/ararat1.htm
Major Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851) was a noted American journalist, playwright, diplomat, New York politician, and Jewish advocate. In 1825 this utopian proto-Zionist proposed and planned a gathering of the world's "Israelites" to western New York state in order to establish a great city and a powerful theocracy -- for the protection and advancement of God's "chosen people." The goals of Noah's 1825 project were never realized. Read about Noah's undertaking of this project in this online essay. This site is created by the followers of the Solomon Spalding Authorship Claims for The Book of Mormon and to Uncovering Latter Day Saint Origins.
Modern Journalism's Founding Father- Adolph Ochs
http://www.vic.com/tnchron/class/Ochs.htm
A biography of newspaperman Adolph Ochs, the person who established the New York Times as the most respected newspaper in the United States, edited by Tennessee's on-line history magazine.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/oppenheimer_robert.htm
U.S. theoretical physicist and science administrator. Noted as director of the Los Alamos laboratory during the development of the atomic bomb. (1943-45). Director of the institute for advanced study Princeton (1947-66). See also United States Atomic Energy Commission In The Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
J. Robert Oppenheimer Centennial at Berkley
Oppenheimer: A Life April 22, 1904-February 18,1967
An Online Centennial Exhibit
http://ohst.berkeley.edu/oppenheimer/exhibit/
Oppenheimer represents many things, but it is the common humanity present in his science, his teaching, his successes, and his failures which makes him a complex and rich historical character. It is perhaps in this spirit that the story of his life ought to be read.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967
by H. A. Bethe
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/joppenheimer.html
J. Robert Oppenheimer died on 18 February 1967 in Princeton, N. J. More than any other man, he was responsible for raising American theoretical physics from a provincial adjunct of Europe to world leadership. This biography originally appeared in the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society.
William S. Paley
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/P/htmlP/paleywillia/paleywillia.htm
A short biography of media executive William S. Paley, known as the founder of the CBS television network, from the Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) in Chicago.
Moritz Pinner (1828-1911)
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/family/moritz.html
Moritz Pinner was a US antislavery activist in the Civil War period. Pinner was born in Prussia. He was one of a handful of immigrant Jews who played a significant role in the Republican Party and in the propaganda efforts against slavery which helped to bring the Civil War. This web site is a biography done by Doron Zeilberger, who is currently with the Mathematics department of Rutgers University.
Eugenia Levy Phillips (2:16-17) http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1041.html
A short online essay about Eugenia Phillips, a Confederate spy during the Civil War, can be found on the website "About Famous People".
The Exceptional and the Mundane: A Biographical Portrait of Rebecca (Machado) Phillips, 1746-1831 by Aviva Bar-On
http://www.umass.edu/judaic/anniversaryvolume/articles/28-F1-Ben-Ur.pdf
Rebecca Phillips (1746-1831), née Rebecca Machado, is a colonial-early American Jewish woman whose remarkable achievements encapsulate both the domestic and public realms. Aviva Bar-On teaches at UMASS Amherst.
Justice for Jonathan Pollard
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/
This is the official website authorized by Jonathan & Esther Pollard. In 1984, Pollard was an analyst in the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NIS) who was accused of passing on classified documents to Israel. He entered a plea bargain and is serving a life sentence in Federal prison.
Joachim Prinz (3:54-55)
Dr. Prinz burst on to the Berlin scene, a 23 year old rabbi and gifted orator with a radical approach to the pulpit; a counterpoint to his staid conservative colleagues. Early to comprehend the Nazi threat, he urged Jews to leave Germany and was himself expelled in 1937. For the next 40 years he brought the same energy and independent thinking to an American congregation, Temple B'nai Abraham, and to his leadership of Jewish organizations. His life-long commitment to Civil Rights culminated in his 1963 March on Washington speech.
Rav Jacob Reines
http://www.mizrachi.org/publications/ecourseView.asp?id=126
Born in Karolin, Belorussia(White Russia) Isaac Jacob Reines and by the time he was eighteen, he had been ordained and appointed as the Rabbi of Shavkyana, Lithunia. He then moved to Sventsyany (a district of Vilna) to serve as Rabbi and Av Beit Din (head of Jewish court). It was in Sventsyany that Rabbi Reines set up a revolutionary yeshiva in which secular subjects were taught along with normal yeshiva curriculum. Read more about him at this site.
Bernard Revel
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/bernard-revel/
Read a short biography of Bernard Revel (1885-1940), Talmudic scholar and educator, directed the Rabbi Isaac Elchanon Theological Seminary from its beginnings to become the renown Yeshiva University with a comprehensive program of Judaic studies integrated with modern scholarship. See also: Porter Philatelic Pages and First Day Covers as well as the online article: What appeared in the design of this postage stamp that got its engraver suspended for a whole year? An article from the school's newspaper, The Commentator, examines Rabbi Revel's teaching theory near the beginning of his tenure at YU.
From Germany to Baltimore: Rabbi Abraham Rice by Rabbi Shmuel Singer
http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/jo/tpersonality/rrice.html
This online article tells the story of Abraham Rice the first Rabbi to hold a position in the United States. Abraham Joseph Rice was born in Gagsheim, near Wurzburg, Bavaria, in 1802. Read about his immigration to the United States and his life here. This article originally appeared in the Jewish Observer and is also available in book form in the ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications Judaiscope Series.
Rabbi Abraham Rice and His Descendants
http://home.comcast.net/~harrietr/rabbi.htm#rabbi
This short biographical sketch of Rabbi Rice, who was to be the "chief Rabbi of the United States". This site is organized by one of his descendants, Harriet Robinson.
Edward G. Robinson (Emanuel Goldenberg)
http://www.moderntimes.com/egr/intro.htm
This site, by a fan of the actor, contains a short biography as well as an extensive listing of Robinson's career as an actor of the stage and screen. Robinson has been honored on a US stamp, see:http://www.unicover.com/EA1CABBW.HTM
Major General Maurice Rose
http://www.3ad.net/mg_rose.htm
The son of a Rabbi who was a son of a Rabbi, Maurice B. Rose was born November 26, 1899 to Samuel and Katy Rose in Middleton, Conn. His parents immigrated to the U.S. from Poland in the 1880's. See also:The Story Behind The Biography of General Rose by Don R. Marsh and Dedication of the Birthplace of Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, U.S. Army.
Samuel Rosenman
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/text/x28/xm2891.html
American Jewish jurist, Democratic Party leader, and advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Educated as a lawyer, Rosenman served as a justice in the New York Supreme Court. After the inauguration in 1933 Roosevelt asked Rosenman to join him in Washington, with the latter serving in the capacity of speechwriter. After 1940 Rosenman became involved in the national defense council and in 1943 was appointed Chief Counsel to the president. Read an Oral History Interview with Judge Samuel I.Rosenman, New York, New York, October 15, 1968 by Jerry N. Hess, on behalf of the Truman Library.
Ida Cohen Rosenthal
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/rosenthal_hi.html
A short biography of Ida Cohen Rosenthal, an outspoken Russian Jewish immigrant who sold American women on the first undergarment that uplifted and conformed to their shape -- the brassiere, from the PBS series Who Made America?
Julius Rosenwald by Alicia S. Roberts
http://www.learningtogive.com/papers/people/julius_rosenwald.html
Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) utilized his fame and fortune for the benefit of humankind through his practice of philanthropy. His fortune was amassed during his career which culminated in his presidency of Sears, Roebuck and Company. It was used to create programs targeting the inequality and education of Jewish and African-American populations. Read more about him at this site. Alicia S. Roberts was a graduate student at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University when she wrote this article. See also the article Julius Rosenwald's Legacy:How Sears CEO Helped Southern Blacks Build Better Schools by Diane Granat. Ms. Granat, a senior editor of Washingtonian magazine, was a 2002 Alicia Patterson Fellow doing research on Julius Rosenwald and his philanthropic legacy.
The Kosher Knockout: Dmitry Salita by Elie Seckbach
http://www.kehilasmy.org/ourhome/lifestl/kosboxer.html
At a November 2003 bout in Las Vegas the crowd had to wait.
Why? Because it was Saturday night and Dmitry Salita hadn't recited Havdalah yet. He was waiting for the Sabbath to end. When it did, Salita went into the ring and knocked out his opponent. Meet Dmitry Salita, the 20-year-old boxing phenom who won't fight on Shabbat. Courtesy of JewsWeek.com January 6, 2003. Read also The Power Behind the Punch.
Samuel Family Saga
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/saga.html
This fascinating story of a San Francisco Jewish family covers subjects including immigration to the United States, the Gold Rush, the Great Earthquake and Fire, and loss of loved ones in the Holocaust. This family history was written by Ted, son of Saul, grandson of Wolff Schmul, and Lee Samuel, well-known San Francisco educators. It offers, in particular, a fascinating glimpse of the Gold Rush era, and early San Francisco. From the site of the virtual museum of the City of San Francisco.
David Sarnoff
http://www.geocities.com/neveyaakov/electro_science/sarnoff.html
This site presents an extensive biography of radio and NBC television pioneer David Sarnoff.
Children's Spirituality: An Interview with Sandy Eisenberg Sasso by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat (3:75)
http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/review-feature/item_8479.html
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, award-winning author of inspiring books for children of all faiths and backgrounds, is a parent, spiritual leader, and storyteller appreciated in many countries. The second woman to be ordained as a rabbi (1974) and the first rabbi to become a mother, she and her husband, Dennis, were the first rabbinical couple to jointly lead a congregation — Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis. Sasso, who holds a doctorate in ministry, is active in the interfaith community, and has written and lectured on the renewal of spirituality, women and religion, and the discovery of the religious imagination in children of all faiths. This interview appears on the web site of Spirituality & Health: The Soul/Body Connection.
Rose Schneiderman http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/q-and-a/glossary/schneiderman-rose.htm
Rose Schneiderman was a labor organizer who taught Eleanor Roosevelt everything she "knew about trade unionism". A short biography about Rose Schneiderman is available here. The following article is also available online by Bonnie Mitelman. Also read "Miss Rose Schneiderman, Cap Maker, Replies to New York Senator on Delicacy and Charm of Women".
A Homegrown Torah Pioneer in America: Gershom Mendes Seixas (1:23, 27, 38, 40, 44, 47, 48)
http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/jo/tpersonality/seixas.html
An online article on Gershom Mendes Seixas, by Rabbi Shmuel Singer, which originally appeared in the Jewish Observer and is also available in book form in the ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications Judaiscope Series.
Our Family: Seligmann Family by Heinz and Thea Ruth Skyte
http://home.t-online.de/home/320043754386-0005/sky40409.htm
The Seligmann family, one of the oldest Baiersdorf, Germany families, its history going back to the 17th century. Read about this family by their descendants who immigrated to the United States during the early part of the 19th century.
Science, Faith and Survival: A Conversation with Natan Sharansky, by Harry Kreisler (3:65)
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people4/Sharansky/sharansky-con0.html
Harry Kreisler of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkley, interviewed Natan Sharansky on April 16, 2004. "Natan Sharansky is Minster of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs in the Israeli government. He is head of Yisrael b'Aliyah political party. During the Cold War, Mr. Sharansky worked with Andre Sakharov, and was one of the most prominent Jewish dissidents in the Soviet Union. He was a founding member and spokesman of the Helsinki Monitoring Group, reporting on Soviet compliance with international agreements. His courageous fight for freedom during nine years of imprisonment by the Soviet police state was a milestone in the global struggle for human rights. This struggle, in turn, played an important role in contributing to the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War and laying the foundation for the enhanced prominence of human rights and global affairs. Mr. Sharansky's remarkable memoir of one man's triumph over a police state is called Fear No Evil. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress.
You can also read the transcript or listen to an earlier PBS NewsHour conversation with Sharansky, from July 22, 1997: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec97/sharansky_7-22.html
Read the transcript of a talk Sharansky delivered at UCLA International Institute, November 30, 2004, entitled:
Natan Sharansky on Human Rights and Democracy in the Middle East: http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=17697
Abe Silverstein
http://ctd.grc.nasa.gov/history/abe.html
When NASA was formed in 1958, Silverstein became head of the Office of Space Flight Programs at Headquarters. He was responsible for the Mercury Program and for all unmanned satellite programs for the first three years of the agency. He named the Apollo program and, together with George Low, laid the groundwork for that program's success in landing a man on the Moon. Read a short biography of Dr. Silverstein on NASA's web site.
Joseph Simon
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/tellingstories/demosite/Lancaster/slavery/images/simon_text.html
In the 18th century, Jews and Christians were importers of, sellers of, and owners of slaves. Joseph Simon, a resident of Lancaster Borough and a founding member of Shaarai Shomayim, owned slaves. The impact of the Gradual Abolition Act of 1780 can be traced in the record of Simon's slaveholding. The Gradual Abolition Act of 1780, the nation's first abolition act, eventually ended slavery in Pennsylvania, although the act stipulated that the children of enslaved persons born after March 1, 1780 would be indentured until their 28th birthday. This online exhibit is part of the "Telling Stories" exhibit created by Millersville University.
Jewish Fur Trader's Descendants-Solomons' Family-Gather for Reunion -article by Bill Gladstone
http://www.jewishsf.com/bk030725/ip36.shtml
The Solomons family reunion was no ordinary gathering with a tasty barbecue and annoying relatives: Read this online article about an unusual get-together celebrating an American Jewish pioneer. Upon discovering their distinguished pedigree, 60 descendants of Ezekiel Solomons, an 18th-century Jewish fur trader known as Michigan's first Jewish settler, recently gathered at Fort Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City, Mich., about 50 miles south of the Canadian city of Sault Ste. Marie.
Gloria Steinem (3:59, 74)
http://www.theglassceiling.com/biographies/bio32.htm
A short biography of Gloria Steinem with references and links to other biographies, stories, and women's resources. Read an interview with Gloria Steinem by Cynthia Gorney, which originally appeared in Mother Jones, November/December 1995. Gloria Steinem helped to create the Ms. Foundation for Women.
Aaron Stern-Corporal, United States Army
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/astern.htm
The essay about the life of Aaron Stern was submitted to Arlington National Cemetery by Milton E. Botwinick of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Botwinick is a professional genealogist.
Adolphus Sterne (1:60)
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/fst45.html
This is a short biography of Adolphus Sterne, colonist, financier of the Texas Revolution, merchant, and legislator. This information is from The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) Online, a digital gateway to Texas history.
Eyes of Glory: 200 Years of an Ethnic American Family, The Stoke Family
www.eyesofglory.com/jewhist.htm
Eyes of Glory is an uniquely American story, a story that culminates 10 years of research and reflection. The 200 year relationship between Theresa & Keith Stokes' extended Jewish and Christian family of color formed a basis for America's bold and 'lively experiment,' different cultures joining with a shared dream of religious and ethnic tolerance, leading them to success and equality. Eyes of Glory follows the various generations of their multi-ethnic family as active participants in key events in our nation's history.
I. F. Stone by Victor Navasky
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20030721&s=navasky
This essay on the life of journalist I. F.(Isadore Feinstein) Stone appeared in The Nation on July 2, 2003. The story was written by Victor Navasky who has been The Nation's editor since 1978 and the magazine's publisher and editorial director since 1995. He is currently the director of the George Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism at Columbia University.
Isador and Ida Straus (1:53 & 2:18-19)
http://members.aol.com/ken63728/cr7.htm
Isador and Ida were well known amongst the first class passengers aboard the Titanic. This short article recounts their last moments together. The final letter written by Isador Straus to his children can be found at http://www.information-engineer.com/sfamily.htm.
Straus Home State Historical Marker (1: 52-53)
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/straushomehistmarker.htm
Straus family home state historical marker located at the corner of Harrison St. and Jefferson Ave. in Talbotton, GA. Talbotton, GA was the home of Lazarus Straus and family who are mentioned in Unit 4, chapter 12. From the collection of Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia.
Bohemian Export Porcelain-A Legacy of the Habsburg Empire by Dr. James D. Henderson (1: 52-53) http://home.wi.rr.com/bohemianchina/ccgi.pdf
This article focuses on the development of the Straus directed porcelain manufacturing business near Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) and their import business in New York during the late 1800s and early 1900s. From the Bohemian Porcelain Information Center website.
Isador and Ida Straus (1:53 & 2:18-19)
http://www.dodger.com/titanic/titanic-bio-keith.htm
An biographical article about Isador and Ida Straus is found on the site of "Titanic: The Musical", a Broadway play. Isador and Ida Straus lost their lives on the Titanic; Ida could have been saved, however, she refused to part company from her husband of 40 years.
Levi Strauss (1:63-64, 77)
http://www.levistrauss.com/about/history/founder.htm
A short online biography of Levi Strauss, the inventor of the quintessential American garment - the blue jean - who was born in Buttenheim, Bavaria on February 26, 1829. There is also a timeline history of the company on this site. This site and information are provided by Levi Strauss & Co.
Adolph Sutro-A Brief Story of a Brilliant Life by Eugenia Kellogg Holmes (1: 62, 66, 77)
http://www.sfmuseum.net/sutro/bio.html
This is the complete text of a small book published in 1895 to honor the new mayor of San Francisco, Adolph Sutro. Born April 29, 1830. He was well educated in the field of mining engineering. This information comes from the virtual museum of the City of San Francisco.
Leo Szilard Online
http://www.dannen.com/szilard.html
Welcome to the world of physicist, biophysicist, and "scientist of conscience" Leo Szilard (1898-1964). How do you say it? Say SIL-ahrd. Szilard's ideas included the linear accelerator, cyclotron, electron microscope, and nuclear chain reaction. Equally important was his insistence that scientists accept moral responsibility for the consequences of their work. This site provides numerous links to other websites featuring Leo Szilard. See also:
Is information physical? - Maxwell's Demon and Szilard`s Engine.
Lillian Wald (2:44-45, 57)
http://www.nurses.info/personalities_lillian_wald.htm
A short biography on Lillian Wald, a nurse, social worker and founder of the Henry Street Settlement in New York's Lower East Side, with a host of related links offered at: http://www.nurses.info/personalities_lillian_wald.htm?PHPSESSID=02f25e1469938b74a9583bfa82d7ff2c
Elie Wiesel (3:45, 62, 75, 79)
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/wie0pro-1
The Academy of Achievement, an interactive museum of living history, provides a wonderful profile, biography and interview with Holocaust survivor and Noble Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. See also the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
The Wernick Family Record of Remembrance: From Shtetl to Tucson
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/wernick/welcome.html
Follow the immigrant story of the Wernick Family. This story contains copies of many family documents of interest. From the Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives.
Rosalyn Yalow
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1977/yalow-autobio.html
A short biography of the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Rosalyn Yalow, published by the Nobel Prize Organization. See also: Bio-sketch Wish-net; Rosalyn Yalow: Assaying the unknown American Chemical society; Contribution of 20th Century Women to Physics UCLA Physics Department; 1977 Nobel Prize Press Release.
Jewish World Review: Past and Present
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/
Wonderful selection of articles, written by Michael Feldberg, the director of the American Jewish Historical Society, on the following topics:
John Adams embraces a Jewish homeland
The Kings of Copper-The Hendricks family of New York
Staying Jewish on the Arizona Frontier-Philip Drachman
Don Solomono, Jewish Indian Chief
Mordecai Manuel Noah: How Buffalo almost became the gateway to the Promised Land (2:60-61)
Lincoln's fight for Jewish chaplains (2:4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 20-24, 26-27, 78)
Alfred Huger Moses, industrial visionary
Alfred Mordecai, Military Scientist
Moses Michael Hays: "A Most Valuable Citizen" (1:26)
"I am a Jew, I am a Republican and I am poor"- Benjamin Nones (1:30, 39)
The temptations of marrying 'out' ... in Colonial New York- The story of the Levy-Franks Family
Vindication of an American Jewish patriot- David S. Franks (1:30)
Old in wisdom, tender in years- Walter Jonas Judah
Mordecai Sheftall and the Wages of War (1:31, 35)
Haym Salomon: The rest of the story (1:28-29, 47)
Francis Salvador: Martyr of the American Revolution (1:31)
How Hebrew came to Yale- Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal
The Making of a Jewish Citizen- Luis Moses Gomez
