From the colonial period, readers meet Jewish patriots who helped the American Revolution and its subsequent advances in human rights and justice. America may never have broken away from England were it not for the efforts of Haym Solomon. During the 1800s, Jewish men and women rose to distinction in serving the growing country's needs. They include philanthropist Rebecca Gratz; prominent jurists in the Cardozo family; Ernestine Rose, the champion of women's rights; several inventors and Civil War heroes. From poet and social champion Emma Lazarus to the Jewish heroes of World Wars I and II, the reader will also thrill to the exploits of great Jewish Americans like Samuel Gompers (labor leader), Bernard Baruch (statesman), Lillian Wald (public health pioneer), and cultural giants like Al Jolson (singer-actor) and George Gershwin (composer). It is hoped that Jewish Heroes in America will inspire a new generation of great American Jews - men and women like Drs. Salk and Sabin, athletes Koufax and Spitz, Nobel laureates Singer and Kissinger, and heroes of war and peace such as Admiral Rickover and Judith Resnik. There are more than one hundred Jewish heroes in this book by Seymour Brody - and artist Art Seiden pictorially captures them all.