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Abravanel, Don Isaac
Berg, Gertude (Molly Goldberg)
Berg, Moe
Berle, Milton
Berlin, Irving
Bernstein, Leonard
Brandeis, Louis D.
Cardozo, Benjamin
Einstein, Albert
Elion, Gertrude
Frankel,Jacob
Gershwin, George
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
Gompers, Samuel
Goode, Alexander
Goodman, Benny
Gratz, Rebecca
Greenberg, Hank
Hillman, Sidney
Hoffman, Jeffrey
Houdini, Harry
Jefferson, Thomas
Karpeles , Leopold
Lamarr, Hedy
Lazarus, Emma
Lehman, Herbert H.
Levy, Asser
Levy, Uriah P.
Magnes, Judah L.
Meir, Golda
Miller, Arthur
Myerson, Bess
Noah, Mordecai.
Ochs, Adolph
Pulitzer, Joseph
Resnik, Judith
Rose, Ernestine
Rosenthal, Robert
Ross, Barney
Salk, Jonas
Salomon, Haym
Santangel, Luis de
Sarnoff, David
Schick, Bela
Seixas, Gershom M.
Singer, Isaac B.
Stern, Isaac
Straus, Isidor & Ida
Strauss, Levi
Streisand, Barbra
Szold, Henrietta
Torres, Dara
Torres, Luis de
Touro, Judah

Wacks, Mel

Wald, Lillian

Washington, George
Wiesel, Elie
Wise, Isaac Mayer
Zacuto, Abraham

Medal by Gerta Ries Wiener (1971), Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941)

Louis Brandeis' nomination in 1916 to the Supreme Court, by President Woodrow Wilson, aroused much consternation in some circles; even the staid Wall Street Journal called him a "rabid ... super-extreme ... anti-corporation agitator." Anti-Semitism also raised its ugly head with the first Jewish nominee to the High Court. However, Brandeis had the support of the people, as his nickname ("The People's Lawyer") revealed, for his crusades on behalf of consumer protection and women's rights, and against monopolistic practices.

While Brandeis won fame as a dissenter on the bench, he was actually in the majority far more often than the minority. His dissenting opinions were of quality not quantity. However, these were highly significant because, in stating his belief in the "living law," in many instances Brandies stated the law as it was yet to be. In a speech made to a Boston audience in 1914, Justice Brandeis stated: "America's fundamental law seeks to make real the brotherhood of man. America's insistent demand in the twentieth century is for social justice." When World War I broke out, Brandeis agreed to serve as Chairman of the Provisional Committee for General Zionist Affairs. "My approach to Zionism," he said, "was through Americanism. Gradually it became clear to me that to be good Americans we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews we must become Zionists." His close relations with President Wilson and high administrative officials played an important part in securing support for the Balfour Declaration whereby Great Britain "views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."


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