We
offer the names of possible future honorees gathered from The
Jewish Book of Lists (Citadel Press, 1998) by Joel Samberg and
other sources. We thank Joel for including a section on Jewish-American
Hall of Fame honorees in his informative book (pp. 67-68).
Public Service
Arthur Goldberg, from the collection of the Supreme
Court
of the United States, artist: Lucien Le Breton.
Frankfurter, Felix: Supreme Court Justice
Goldberg, Arthur: Supreme Court Justice, UN Representative
Kissinger, Henry: Secretary of State
Koch, Edward: Mayor of New York
Rickover, Hyman: Admiral, Father of the Atomic submarine
Solomon, Adolphus: Publisher who helped found the American Red Cross
Yellen, Janet: First woman to hold position of Chair of the Federal Reserve
Literature
Annenberg, Walter: Publisher of TV Guide, etc. and great philanthropist
Asimov, Isaac: Science fiction writer of I, Robot, Foundation
trilogy, etc.
Bellow, Saul: Author of Herzog; winner of Pulitzer and
Nobel Prizes
Cahan, Abraham: Editor of the Jewish Daily Forward
Doctorow, E. L.: Author of Ragtime, World's Fair, etc.
Ferber, Edna: Author of Show Boat, So Big (winner of
Pulitzer Prize), etc.
Friedan, Betty: Author of The Feminine Mystique, and a founder
of the modern feminist movement
Mailer, Norman: Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Armies
of the Night, The Executioner's Song, etc.
Malamud, Bernard: Pulitzer Prize winner for The Fixer
Parker, Dorothy: Writer for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
Business
Handler, Ruth: Cofounder of Mattel and creator of Barbie
Karan, Donna: Founder of her namesake apparel firm
Klein, Calvin: Founder of his namesake apparel firm
Laemmle, Carl: Founder of Universal Pictures
Lauren, Ralph: Founder of his namesake apparel firm featuring
the Polo brand
Paley, William: Founder of CBS Television
Rosenwald, Julius: Built up Sears, Roebuck and Company; major
philanthropist for low-income African-American children
Portrait of Helena Rubenstein by Graham Sutherland (1959)
Rubenstein, Helena: Founder of namesake cosmetic business and
beauty salons
Warner, Albert, Harry, Jack and Samuel: Founders of Warner Brothers
Pictures
Science
Berliner, Emile: Inventor who improved the telephone, phonograph,
airline engines and helicopters
Photo of Franz Boas (1901), Curator of Ethnography at the
American Museum of Natural History, and raven mask, collected
the same year at Kingcome (Victoria, British Columbia)
Boas, Franz: Anthropologist
Cooper, Martin: Engineer who is considered “Father of the Cell Phone”
Kleinrock, Leonard: Engineer who developed the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet
Michelson, Albert Abraham: Nobel Prize winning physicist, who accurately measured the speed of light.
Waxman, Selman: Nobel Prize winning microbiologist who discovered
streptomycin, which cured tuberculosis and other diseases.
Entertainment
Benny, Jack: Radio and television comedian
Jack Benny and Fanny Brice commemorative stamps by Al Hirschfeld
Brice,
Fanny: Ziegfeld Follies star, and star of Baby Snooks on radio
Caesar, Sid: Brilliant television comic on Your Show of Shows,
etc.
Cantor, Eddie: Vaudevillian, star of Ziegfeld Follies, radio
and television
Lewis, Jerry: Comedian and philanthropist (head of the Muscular
Dystrophy Association)
Marx Brothers - Groucho, Chico, Harpo and sometimes Zeppo: Stars
of stage, motion pictures and television
Picon, Molly: Yiddish theater and motion picture star
Spielberg, Steven: Oscar winning director of Schindler's List,
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Jurassic Park, etc.
Thomashefsky, Boris: Pioneer Yiddish theater actor and director
Three Stooges - Moe, Shemp and Curly: Slapstick comedians
Tucker, Sophie: Entertainer, Last of the Red Hot Mammas
Religion
Kaplan, Mordecai: Founder of Reconstructionist movement
Leeser, Isaac: Conservative leader who founded the first Hebrew
School in America
Photograph of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Schneerson, Menachem: The Lubavitcher Rebbe, who helped establish
Chabads (synagogues) and Hebrew Day Schools throughout the world
Wise, Stephen: Zionist rabbi and dynamic
leader; founder of the American Jewish Congress, and helped
establish the NAACP and the ACLU
Sports
Copland, Lillian: Won gold and silver Olympic medals for discus
throw; held records for shot put and javelin throw
Holman,
Nat: Considered greatest guard in professional basketball history,
and championship-winning coach
Sandy Koufax’s Baseball Hall of Fame plaque
Koufax, Sandy: Legendary pitching star of the Brooklyn (later
Los Angeles) Dodgers
Leonard, Benny: World Lightweight and welterweight boxing champion
Photograph of football great Sid Luckman
Luckman,
Sid: All-American quarterback who introduced the T-formation
Spitz, Mark: Swimmer who won 7 gold medals at the 1972 Olympics
Music
Aaron Copland
Copland,
Aaron: Composer of American classics - Rodeo, Billy the Kid,
El Salon Mexico, etc.
Dylan, Bob: Grammy winning folk-rock singer
Getz, Stan: Jazz saxophonist; won Record of Year Grammy with
Girl from Ipanema
Heifitz, Jascha: Violin virtuoso
Horowitz, Vladimir: Piano virtuoso
James, Harry: Trumpet player, music arranger, and band leader
Jolson, Al: Broadway star who was star of the first talkie motion
picture, The Jazz Singer
Peerce, Jan: Metropolitan Opera star and cantor
Peters, Roberta: Soprano with the Metropolitan Opera
Piatigorski,
Gregor: Cellist virtuoso
Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in scene from Rodgers and Hammerstein's
The King and I
Rodgers, Richard: Composed the music for Broadway musical hits South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music, etc. with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein (whose father was Jewish but was raised Episcopalian).
Rubenstein, Artur: Piano virtuoso who was the world's foremost
interpreter of the music of Chopin
Shaw, Artie: Clarinet player, big band leader
Shore, Dinah: Popular singer who hosted successful variety and
talk shows on television
Sills, Beverly: Opera diva and Director of the New York City
Opera
Simon, Paul and Garfunkel, Art: Folk singing superstars
Art
Arbus,
Diane: Avant-garde and documentary photographer
Baskin, Leonard: Sculptor and printmaker
Self portrait by Solomon Nunes Carvalho
Carvalho
Solomon Nunes: Painter, photographer and explorer
Fleisher, Max: Creator of Popeye and Betty Boop animated motion
pictures
Goldberg, Rube: Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, famous for
his wild inventions
Self portrait by Al Hirschfeld
Hirschfeld,
Al: The most famous theatrical caricaturist in history
Krasner, Lee: Expressionist artist, wife of Jackson Pollock
Leibovitz, Annie: Photographer of the stars
Lichtenstein, Roy: Pop artist
Lipchitz, Jacques: Cubist sculptor
Nevelson, Louise: Sculptor and painter, known for her large
scale wooden assemblages
Ray, Man: Avant-garde artist, photographer and film maker
Rivers, Larry: Pop artist
Sendak, Maurice: Children's book illustrator and author of Where
the Wild Things Are, etc.
Shahn, Ben: Social realist painter and illustrator
