Each student should choose a person from the list below (or you may choose another important American Jewish Personality with my approval)and write an approximately five to ten-page paper on that individual’s contribution to American Jewish History.
The paper should consist of a brief biography of the individual and the importance of what that individual (or his family) did to and for both American and Jewish History. 1. Hayim Solomon — 21. Meyer Lansky 2. Uriah P. Levy — 22. Samuel Gompers 3. Mordecai Manuel Noah — 23. Henrietta Szold 4. Judah Touro — 24. Louis B. Mayer 5. Levi Strauss — 25. George Gershwin 6. Joshua Abraham Norton — 26. Irving Berlin 7. Rebecca Gratz — 27. Jonas Salk 8. Gershom Mendes Seixas — 28. Al Jolson 9. Emma Goldman — 29. Henry Kissinger 10. Emma Lazarus — 30. Joseph Lieberman 11. Judah P. Benjamin — 31. Hyman Rickover 12. Bernard Baruch — 32. Rabbi Jacob Joseph 13. Joseph Seligman -33.Rabbi Dr.Joseph Kaminetsky 14. Benjamin Cardozo- 34. Dr. Bernard Revel 15. August Belmont – 35. Dr. Bernard Lander 16. Meyer Guggenheim -36.Rabbi Dr.J.B.Solovethick 17. Louis Brandeis — 37 Henry Morgenthau 18. Jacob Schiff—– 38. Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum 19. Isidor Straus—- 39. Yaakov Yosef Herman 20. Julius Ochs —- 40. Rabbi Eliezer Silver You are required to have footnotes and a bibliography. Use the University of Chicago style. It can be found in the Touro Virtual Library.
