Washington Jewish Week
here's Henrietta Szold of Baltimore, the founder and president of Hadassah: the Women's Zionist Organization of America, looking like a 1920s well-dressed matron. Appropriately sharing another page in A Living Lens are film moguls Louis B. Mayer and Sam Goldwyn, both of MGM.
Also making an appearance are actors Edward G. Robinson and Eddie Cantor, songstress Sophie Tucker, scientist Albert Einstein, Loews Theatres founder Marcus Loew, cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Images of those luminaries of the Jewish world of the 20th century are among the 500 photos in this remarkable book from the archives of the Yiddish Jewish Daily Forward ‹ the Forvertes ‹ which began publication in 1897, and its English-language counterpart Forward.
But this work presents much more than the faces of well-known American Jews. Israelis like former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and then-Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek can be found between its covers. So can refusenik Natan Sharanksy on his arrival in Israel in 1986. And even Michal Harel, Miss Israel of 1952, can be seen, touring the United States to raise money for the United Jewish Appeal. Read more...