Rebecca Gratz

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