The history of Jewish Americans as well as their culture, people and accomplishments are presented in this third program of Jewish American Achievement. Chapter List 1.) 1903 - Emma Lazarus Poem is Inscribed on the Statue of Liberty - Poet Emma Lazarus, whose poem on immigration is on the base of the Statue of Liberty, was a champion of the third wave of Jewish Immigration, which was immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe coming to America to avoid persecution. 2.) 1907 - Albert A. Michelson is the First American to Win Nobel Prize in Physics - Albert A. Michelson studied physics and the speed of light, performing the Michelson-Morley experiment which showed that electromagnetic waves did not pass through a medium known as ether, therefore opening the way for the modern physics of Albert Einstein, and for which Michelson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907. 3.) 1912 - Harry Houdini Performs His Greatest Escape - The world's greatest magician, Harry Houdini, performed magic and escape tricks that wowed American audiences; his greatest escape trick was the Chinese Water Torture Cell. 4.) 1916 - Louis Brandeis is the First Jewish American Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court - Louis Brandeis, a lawyer for the common man, was also a leader of the American Zionist movement and the first Jewish American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, opening the door for other Jewish Americans such as, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur J. Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. 5.) 1919 - Jewish Americans Found Hollywood - Hollywood and its movies were founded by immigrant Jews like Paramount's Adolf Zukor and Metro Goldwyn Mayer, MGM's Louis B. Mayer, in Los Angeles to escape Thomas Edison's monopoly in the east. Mayer would go on to found the Academy Awards, the Oscars.
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