Challenge and Change: History of the Jews in America
Links to Personalities-General
Americans of Jewish Descent
Genealogical and historic information on Americans descended from Jews who arrived in the United States before 1865. In addition to genealogies, AOJD-online.net contains biographies of key individuals, historic notes, and images of individuals, cemeteries, headstones, homes, and synagogues linked to these families.
The Crime Library
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/about/index.html
The Crime Library is a collection of more than 600 nonfiction feature stories on major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics and criminal profiling by prominent writers. Court TV, a joint venture of AOL-Time Warner and Liberty Media Inc., purchased the Crime Library in September 2000. Read about some of the more famous Jewish gangsters: Meyer Lansky:Mastermind of the Mob; Bugsy Siegel; Dutch Schultz:Beer Baron of the Bronx; Murder, Inc.
Famous Jews Interactive
http://www.heebz.com
Famous Jews Interactive is one of the most entertaining and accurate resource of its kind, created by the Center for Ethnic Jewish Studies in Ramat Aviv, Israel and volunteers. Searching for names of famous Jews with a specific occupation or talent? They have that too. Come and browse the categories and look around.
Jewish Nobel Prize Laureates
http://www.science.co.il/Nobel.asp
The Israel Science and Technology website contains the national database and directory of science and technology related sites in Israel. The site also includes sections on Jewish scientists and students in the Diaspora. Great section on Jewish Laureates of the Nobel Prize in the Sciences, complete with bibliographies.
Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/about
Edited by Professors Paula Hyman of Yale and Dalia Ofer of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Encyclopedia is a resource for anyone interested in Jewish women anywhere, at any time, because the field of women's history is moving away from national boundaries.
Jews in America
http://www.jewsinamerica.com
This site, edited by Louis O. Schwartz, offers an online exhibit of famous American Jews. This site presents a factual history of the contributions that Jews have made to this country from Columbus' time to the present.
Jews In Sports Online
http://jewsinsports.org
Jews In Sports Online tells the largely under appreciated story of Jewish athletes, from the famous to the unknown. The American Jewish Historical Society presents this digital archival record of the proud legacy of Jewish athletes, and how each one's accomplishments in the world of sports reflected on his or her particular society and era. See Jewish Major Leaguers.
Miriam's Cup: A New Ritual for the Passover Seder
This web site, Miriam's Cup, introduces a new ritual for the Passover seder. Its purpose is to honor the role of Miriam the Prophetess in the Exodus and to highlight the contributions of women to Jewish culture, past and present. Of particular interest is the biographies of several Jewish American Women, click on any of the names for more information: Letty Cottin Pogrebin; Henrietta Szold; Ruth Gruber; Emma Lazarus; Golda Meir; Bella Abzug.
Sonnet Central- Emma Lazarus
http://www.sonnets.org/alpha.htm
Sonnet Central is an archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work. Sonnets are grouped by period. All of the sonnets included (as well as most of those that are linked) are modernized texts for the general reader and are not presented for purposes of scholarly work. Of particular interest is the collection of the works of Emma Lazarus, who is mentioned in Unit 5, chapter 13 (click on her name to view her poems). For more information about the Statue of Liberty, this information is provided by the National Park Service. For Emma Lazarus' 2 volume works of poems, click Poems Of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1; Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 (Jewish poems: Translations); these free online books are from the Project Gutenberg web site.
Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest
http://www.jhsum.org/jewishwomenexhibit
This site explores Jewish women's experiences in unpacking, rearranging, and remodeling their heritage in the Upper Midwest. It also relates how their female descendants redefined that legacy in order to create a more egalitarian community...Learn about Jewish women and the things that they carried, preserved, and changed in the new place they came to call home. Sections include: The Journey; Life Inside the Jewish Home; Life Outside the Jewish Home. From the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest .
Who Knew It's By a Jew?
www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/2/Music/American_Jewish_Music/Songs_By_American_Jews.shtml
Many of the best-known American songs have been written by Jews--including many Christmas songs. This list was compiled by Joshua Jacobson. Dr. Joshua Jacobson is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Northeastern University and a Visiting Professor of Jewish Music at Hebrew College. He is also the founder and director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston, a world-renowned ensemble, specializing in Hebrew music.
