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Jews Who Helped
Columbus (1486-1492), Abravanel, Santangel,
Zacuto & Torres |
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Haym Salomon (1740-1785),
Revolutionary War patriot
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Gershom Mendes Seixas
(1745-1816), Patriotic Rabbi during Revolutionary
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Touro
Synagogue (1763), National Historic Site
in Newport, Rhode Island |
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Rebecca Gratz
(1781-1869), Philanthropist & established
first Jewish Sunday School |
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Uriah P. Levy
(1792-1862), Navy Commodore
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Ernestine Rose (1810-1892),
Equal rights pioneer |
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Levi Strauss (1829-1902),
Clothing manufacturer |
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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887),
Statue of Liberty poet |
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Louis Brandeis (1856-1941),
Supreme Court Justice |
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Adolph Ochs (1858-1935),
New York Times publisher |
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Henrietta Szold (1860-1945),
Founder of Hadassah |
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Houdini (1874-1926),
Magician & escape artist |
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Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938),
Supreme Court Justice |
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Judah Magnes (1877-1948),
Religious leader & educator |
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Bela Schick (1877-1967),
Developed Schick Test for Diphtheria |
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Herbert Lehman (1878-1963),
Senator & Governor of New York |
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Irving Berlin (1888-1989),
Songwriter |
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| Albert Einstein (1879-1955),
Nobel Prize winning physicist |
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George Gershwin (1898-1937),
Composer |
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Golda Meir (1898-1979),
Israel Prime Minister |
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991),
Yiddish Writer & Nobel Prize Winner |
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Benny Goodman (1909-1986),
"The King of Swing" |
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Hank Greenberg (1911-1986,
Baseball Hall of Famer |
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Jonas Salk (1914-1995,
Polio vaccine developer |
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Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990),
Conductor & composer |
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Isaac Stern (1920-2001),
Violin virtuoso |
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Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), Author & humanitarian |
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| Barbra Streisand (1942-
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