Americans All: Jews in the Making of Glorious America: Grandfather tells Benny how Jews helped in the discovery and building of America
by Oscar Leonard; Illustrator-Ellen Simon
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Behrman House, Inc., 1951. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1st edition, 4th printing (1951). No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Wear and tear to dust jacket edges. . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Americans all: They came from many lands -- 2.) Jews helped too: Columbus and the Jews who helped discover America -- 3.) He fought for his rights: Asher Levy -- 4.) The merchant prince: Aaron Lopez -- 5.) And some helped Washington -- 6.) The Jewish Paul Revere: Francis Salvador -- 7.) The Jewish Lafayette: Benjamin Nones -- 8.) He hated slavery: Benjamin Sheftall -- 9.) The rabbi's son: Judah Touro -- 10.) He scored a point: Jacob Henry -- 11.) He outsmarted the sultan: Mordecai Manual Noah -- 12.) Almost captured: pirates: Uriah Phillips Levy -- 13.) Kind as a father: Henry Castro -- 14.) He captured a dictator: Leon Dyer -- 15.) The fighting doctor: David De Leon -- 16.) They were friends of Lincoln -- 17.) The brains of the Confederacy: Judah P. Benjamin -- 18.) Rebecca the Beautiful: Rebecca Gratz -- 19.) The lamp beside the golden door: Emma Lazarus -- 20.) The pioneer railroader: Mendes Cohen -- 21.) Remember the Maine: Adolph Marix -- 22.) American - his proudest title: Moses Jacob Ezekiel -- 23.) He championed labor: Samuel Gompers -- 24.) The farmer's friend: David Lubin -- 25.) And children loved her: Sophie Irene Loe.b -- 26.) He fought hunger: Joseph Goldberger -- 27.) He was a good man: Nathan Straus -- 28.) She lived on Henry Street: Lillian Wald -- 29.) The people's advocate: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo -- 30.) He Charley McCarthy'd them: Sammy Goldberg -- 31.) He saved the lost battalion: Abe Krotoshinsky -- * Epilogue: The American Dream -- * Last but by no means least. . . . . . . . . . They came from many lands. They spoke many tongues. They brought with them love of liberty, power to work and dreams of a better world. Some of them knew suffering but none of them wavered. They came to help make America great. Not dry history or dull biography but vivid drama with thrilling plot and stirring action. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.
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- Bookseller
- Bookmarx Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25216
- Title
- Americans All: Jews in the Making of Glorious America: Grandfather tells Benny how Jews helped in the discovery and building of America
- Author
- Oscar Leonard; Illustrator-Ellen Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Behrman House, Inc.
- Date Published
- 1951
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