Portraits of Jewish-American Heroes
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Haym Salomon -- Levi Strauss -- Emma Lazarus -- Louis Dembitz Brandeis -- Henrietta Szold -- Rachel (Ray) Frank -- Lillian Wald -- Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss) -- Albert Einstein -- Golda Meir -- Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Henry Benjamin (Hank) Greenberg -- Leonard Bernstein -- Bella Savitsky Abzug -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- Gloria Steinem -- Michael Schwerner And Andrew Goodman -- Steven Spielberg -- Judith Arlene Resnik -- Daniel Pearl.
From its beginnings, America, founded on religious freedom, has been a land of opportunity for Jews socially as well as spiritually. Here are profiles of twenty-one individuals who have enriched America and the lives of Americans through their achievements in such areas as science, sports, film making, and civil rights. An inspiring journey through more than two centuries of American Jewish history.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Great! submitted by takako on July 22, 2018, 12:08pm I learned about the Jewish people in America that I didn't know at all.
PUBLISHED
New York : Puffin Books, 2017.
Year Published: 2017
Description: 96 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0425289745
9781518246845
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Rosen, Elizabeth.
SUBJECTS
Jews -- Biography.
Jewish women -- Biography.