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