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Extraordinary Jewish Americans / by Philip Brooks.
- Title
- Extraordinary Jewish Americans / by Philip Brooks.
- Author
- Brooks, Philip, 1963-
- Publication
- New York : Children's Press, c1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | E184.J5 B7429 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 288 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Presents short biographies of more than sixty Jewish Americans who have flourished in careers including law, finance, entertainment, writing, politics, and science.
- Series Statement
- Extraordinary people
- Uniform Title
- Extraordinary people
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Juvenile works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword: Who are the American Jews? -- Introduction: Anti-Semitism and assimilation -- 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 -- Bob Dylan -- Barbra Streisand -- Itzhak Perlman -- Steven Spielberg -- Judith Resnik -- Mark Spitz -- Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield -- Jerry Seinfeld -- 124 other extraordinary Jewish Americans.
- ISBN
- 0516206095 (hbk.)
- 0516263501 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^97037535^/AC
- OCLC
- 37594711
- SCSB-12689292
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library