Famous Books written by Jewish Authors For you readers, you’ve seen lists of bestselling books, most influential books, classic titles and authors, and you know the intrinsic value of reading a good book. We thought you might find the following dozen plus book titles a reminder of the contribution Jewish authors made in the field …
Capturing Lightening in a Bottle: Top 10 medical breakthroughs! It’s no surprise to anyone that we are all better off because of many smart, hardworking Jewish doctors and researchers. Here’s our Top 10 list of Jewish medical contributions that help us live longer and better lives: 1. Polio vaccine: Jonas Salk, who said, “Our greatest …
Toys? Jewish? Improving the world? You decide! What do Mr. Potato Head, the Teddy Bear, Transform ers, Barbie, GI Joe and Bratz Dolls, Magic 8 Ball, and the home video game console all have in common? Jewish inventor/creators! George Lerner, born in Brooklyn, NY, created Mr. Potato Head in 1952. Morris and Rose Michtom, Russian-Jewish …
You’ve heard the words – “Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,…” And for many if not most of us, our great-great-grandparents or some level of elders on our family tree, passed by those words, found on the base of the Statue of Liberty, as they entered the United States. …
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What got you through COVID? What product did you purchase so much more during COVID than you’d ever purchased before? Besides masks. That’s right – Purell! So here’s the story: In 1946, Jewish-Americans Goldie and Jerry Lippman founded a little company they called, GOJO Industries in Akron, Ohio, where they developed and manufactured their product, …
Maybe U.S. Patent No. 2,612,994 doesn’t mean much to you. But have you ever seen or used a bar code? You can thank two Jewish-Americans, Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver for developing the first optically scanned bar code, patented in 1952. You may not remember before bar codes but one had to trust the …
Do you use Waze to find your way from one place to another? You can thank 3 Israelis who developed it in 2008 to offer real-time traffic updates for drivers in Israel to avoid congestion, accidents and other activity that results in slow-downs or detours. At the time, Uri Levin, Ehud Shabtai, and Amir Shinar …
Lise Meitner (1878 – 1968), Jewish scientist who has an element on the Periodic Table named for her. In the Periodic Table of the Elements, there are two elements named after women scientists. The namesake of Curium is well known, but the other scientist is unjustly obscure– Austrian-born Jewish physicist Elise “Lise” Meitner, who overcame …
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was an Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painter who was a pivotal figure in the Impressionist movement. Born on the island of St. Thomas to parents of Portuguese Jewish and French Jewish ancestry, he is regarded as the “dean of the Impressionist painters” not only because he was the oldest of the group, but …
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