From Moses to Einstein
Subtitle: they all are Jews
By: biographical sketches by Mac Davis with portraits by E. E. Claridge
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Jordan Publishing Co.
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Jews; Biography; Juvenile literature
Other titles: They all are Jews.
Table of contents: title: Moses: "let my people go"; title: Bar Cochba: Magnificent warrior; title: Moses Maimonides: the second Moses; title: Luis De Torres: he sailed with Columbus; title: Asser Levy: the fighting butcher; title: baruch Spinoza: martyr to truth; title: Israel Ben Eliezer: founder of Hassidism; title: Moses Mendelssohn: the hunchback who enlightened the Jews; title: Francis Salvador: Indian fighter; title: Haym Salomon: an American patriot; title: Mayer Amschel Rothschild: founder of the house of Rothschild; title: Isaac Franks: George Washington's right-hand man; title: Daniel Mendoza: king of the roped arena; title: Esther Manuel: woman of love and thunder; title: Sir Moses Montefiore: champion of Jewish rights; title: Rebecca Gratz: heroine of fiction; title: Uriah Phillips Levy: the sea fighter; title: Heinrich Heine: singer of the immortality of love; title: Benjamin Disraeli: statesman; title: Felix Mendelssohn: "a midsummer night's dream"; title: Judah Philip Benjamin: the brain of the Confederacy; title: Karl Marx: Prophet of a new world; title: Abraham Schreiner: Discoverer of petroleum; title: Rachel: tragic muse; title: Joseph Israels: painter of the soul; title: Baron Maurice de Hirsch: philanthropist; title: Siegfried Marcus: grandfather of the automobile; title: Ivan Stanislavovich Bloch: fiery advocate of universal peace; title: Georges Bizet: composer of "Carmen"; title: Emin Pasha: empire builder; title: Luigi Luzzatti: grand old man of Italy; title: Nathan Strauss: prince of the generous heart; title: Otto Lilienthal: the bird man; title: Albert Michelson: he measured the speed of light; title: Ehrlich and Wassermann: heroes of the laboratory; title: Louis Brandeis: friend of justice and of man; title: Sigmund Freud: explorer of the human mind; title: Adolph Ochs: all the news that's fit to print; title: Alfred Dreyfus: Devil's island could not crush his spirit; title: Rufus Daniel Isaacs: viceroy of India; title: Theodore Herzl: "if I forget thee, o Jerusalem"; title: Arthur Schnitzler: master of twilight moods; title: Israel Zangwill: the Jewish Dickens; title: Carl Laemmle: little giant; title: Lillian Wald: the angel of Henry street; title: Karl Landsteiner: the blood detective; title: Bernard Mannes Baruch: intimate of presidents; title: Sir Herbert Samuel: first high commissioner of Palestine; title: Chaim Weizmann: builder of the Jewish homeland; title: Max Reinhardt: "all the world's a stage"; title: Stephen Samuel Wise: the voice for human rights; title: Herbert H. Lehman: chief of the empire state; title: Leon Blum: France's master of destiny; title: Leon Trotsky: forsaken Napoleon; title: Jacob Epstein: storm center of sculpture; title: Casimir Funk: Isolator of the vitamin; title: David Sarnoff: s o s; title: George Gershwin: from tin pan alley to Carnegie hall; title: Jasha Heifetz: knight of the bow; title: Albert Einstein: map-maker of a universe.