Audacious Jewish Lives Volume 6

The lives, ideas and influence of eleven audacious Jews - what they did, what they believed and their contribution to the Jewish story. Courageous, challenging and often misunderstood, they left a lasting legacy for humanity. This book has a chapter on each character in an easy-to-read bullet point format, which gives a summary of the character's life, personality and beliefs. Jonah - the Biblical prophet to Nineveh. Josephus - author and military commander who defected to Rome during the Great Revolt. Solomon Schechter - rabbi, scholar and educator who uncovered the importance of the Cairo Genizah. Louis Brandeis - Zionist leader and associate justice of the US Supreme Court. Abraham Isaac Kook - the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine. Harry Houdini - escape artist, illusionist and stunt performer. Irving Berlin – songwriter, composer and lyricist. Isaac Bashevis Singer - writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Rosalind Franklin - chemist and X -ray crystallographer. Yitzhak Rabin - Israeli general and its 5th Prime Minister. Stan Lee - comic book writer, editor, and publisher. Elie Wiesel - writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor.