TIDBITS ABOUT FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH JEWISH ROOTS

2) Joseph Stalin was originally named Joseph David Djugashvili (translated
as: “son of a Jew”.) All 3 of the women that he married were Jewish

3) Dwight Eisenhower’s father was a Swedish Jew, and listed in West Point’s
Yearbook of 1915.

4) Lillian Friedman, a Jewish woman, married Cruz Rivera. They named their
baby Geraldo Miguel Rivera (it doesn’t sound Jewish), but according to
Jewish Law, anyone born to a Jewish mother is Jewish. Thus, Geraldo Rivera
is Jewish.

5) Fiorello Laguardia, famous former mayor of New York City, whose mother’s
name was Jacobson. His father was not Jewish. Laguardia spoke seven
languages fluently, including Hebrew and Yiddish.

6) Winston Churchill whose mother’s name was Jenny Jerome, a Jew.

7) Cary Grant, whose mother, Elsie, was Jewish. His father, Elias Leach, was
not. Grant’s original name was Archibald Alexander Leach; (Robin Leach is
his first cousin).

8) Peter Sellers’ mother, Margaret Marks, was Jewish. His father, Bill
Sellers, was not. Peter’s real name is Richard Henry Sellers.

9) David Bowie’s mother is Jewish, his father is not. One of Bowie’s albums
discusses his Jewish ancestry. His real name: David Stenton Haywood Jones.

10) Robert DeNiro’s mother is Jewish.

11) Shari Belafonte’s mother is Jewish. Her father, Harry’s grandfather is a
Jew.

12) Olivia Newton John’s grandfather, a Jew, was a Nobel Prize winning
physicist.

13) Harrison Ford’s mother is a Russian Jew, his father is Irish Catholic.

14) The first theater to be used solely for the showing of motion pictures
was built by a Jew Adolf Zukor.

15) The first full-length sound picture, The Jazz Singer was produced by
Jews, Samuel L. Goldwyn & Louis B. Mayer (MGM).

16) A Jew, Dr. Abraham Waksman, coined the term antibiotics.

17) A Polish Jew, Casimir Funk, who pioneered a new field of medical
research, gave us a common word — vitamins.

18) The first successful operation for appendicitis was performed by a
Jewish surgeon, Dr. Simon Baruch.

19) Dr.. Abraham Jacobi hailed as America’s father of Pediatrics, is a Jew.

20) Until a Jewish doctor, Dr.. Siccary proved it differently, people
believed that tomato was poisonous.

21) A Jew, Levi Strauss, is the inventor/originator of jeans & Levis, the
largest clothing retailer in the world.

22) In 1909, four Jews were among the 60 multi-cultural signers of the
Call to the National Action, which resulted in the creation of the NAACP.

23) A Jew, Emile Berliner, is the man who developed the modern day
phonograph.

While Thomas Edison was working out a type of phonograph that used a
cylinder as a record, Berliner invented a machine that would play a disc.
The machine he patented was called the gramophone, and the famous RCA
trademark is a picture of a dog listening to “his master’s voice” on
Berliner’s device. The gramophone was superior to Edison’s machine. In
short, Emile Berliner made possible the modern record industry. His company
was eventually absorbed by the Victor Talking Machine Company, now known as
RCA.

24) A Jew, Louis B. Mayer (co-founder of MGM), created the idea for the
Oscar.

25) European Jews are the founding fathers of all the Hollywood Studios.

26) Jews comprise a mere 1/4 of 1% (13 million) of the world’s population
(of over 6 billion), and while 99% of the world is non-Jewish, 72% of
Pulitzer Prize winners are Jews.

27) Three of greatest & most influential thinkers dominating the 20th
Century are Jews – Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Marx.

28) The most popular selling Christmas song “White Christmas” was written
by a Jew, Irving Berlin.

29) Of the 660 Nobel prizes from 1901 – 1990, 160 have been awarded to
Jews. More Jews have won more Nobel prizes than any other ethnicity. They
have won 40x more than should be expected of them based upon their small
population numbers.

30) A Jew, Dr. Jonas Salk, is the creator of the first polio vaccine..

31) Hayam Solomon & Isaac Moses, both Jews, are responsible for creating
the first modern banking institutions.

32) Jews created the first department stores in America in the nineteenth
century.

The Altmans, Gimbels, Kaufmanns, Lazaruses, Magnins, Mays, Strausses became
leaders of major department stores.
Julius Rosenwald revolutionized the way Americans purchased goods by
improving Sears Roebuck’s mail order merchandising.
Hart, Schaffner, Marx, Kuppenheimer and Levi Strauss became household names
in men’s clothing.

33) Marc Chagall (originally Segal) a Russia Jew, is one of the great 20th
century painters.

34) The fortune(s) of English Jews — Isaac Goldsmid, Nathan Rothschild,
David Salomons, and Moses Montefiore — helped England become a world
empire.

35) In 1918, Detroit, a Jew, Max Goldberg, opened the “first” commercial
parking lot.

36) In 1910, a Jew, Louis Blaustein, and his son opened the “first” gas
station, eventually founding the American Oil Company (AMOCO). The
Blausteins became one of the richest oil families in the world.

37) A Jew, Dr. Albert Sabin, developed the first oral polio vaccine.

38) A Jew, Steven Spielberg, is the most successful filmmaker since the
advent of film.

39) A Jew, Emma Lazarus, wrote the famous poem, ´The New Colossus” which
is inscribed on the Statue Of Liberty.

40) A Jew, Harry Houdini (Weiss) is the father of magic and illusion..

41) Abraham, is the father of the Jews and Arabs, and from whom the
world’s 3 major religions: Judaism, Christianity & Islam originated.

42) Jews are the oldest of any people on earth who have kept their national
identity and cultural heritage intact.

43) George & Ira Gershwin and Irving Berlin, all Jews, are three of the most
prolific composers of the 20th century.

44) Isadore & Nathan Straus, who are both Jews – “Abraham & Straus,”
eventually became sole owners of Macy’s, the world’s largest department
store, in 1896.

45) Dr. Paul Ehrlich, a Jewish physician, was awarded the Nobel Prize in
1908 for finding the cure for syphilis.

46) Armand Hammer, a Jew, of “Arm & Hammer” fame. a physician &
businessman originated the largest trade between U. S. and Russia.

47) Louis Santanel, a Jew, was the financier who provided the funds for
Columbus ‘ voyage to the New World (America).

48) Sherry Lansing, a Jew, became the first woman to become president of a
major Hollywood studio, Paramount Pictures.

49) Flo Zigfield, a Jew, of “Ziegfield Follies” fame, is the creator of
American burlesque.