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Adolph Eddy Goldfarb was born in 1921 in Chicago, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania. He was one of three children: Bernard was five years older and Bunny (Bernice) was two years younger. As a young child, he became interested in how things work. When he was around five years old, his father, Louis, brought home a radio.
Michtom was born into a Jewish family [4] [3] on September 12, 1869, and immigrated to New York in 1887, when he also married his wife, Rose Katz (1867–1937), who was born in Romania. He sold candy in his shop at 404 Tompkins Avenue [ 5 ] in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn by day and made stuffed animals with his wife Rose at night.
Created by Israeli engineer Gavriel Iddan [17] who sold the company to Irish medical device maker Covidien for $860 million. [18] [19] [20] Iddan has expressed regret for the sale due to the companies fulfillment of an ancient Jewish prophecy “The Pillcam was based on military technology...
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Sign on Nobel Laureates Boulevard in Rishon LeZion saluting Jewish Nobel laureates. Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [1] at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of ...
There had been waves of Jewish immigrants from Germany and eastern Europe to the United States, and many others also adopted anglicized names. Cowen often gave his birthdate as 1880, but his birth was recorded three years earlier. After World War I, Lionel had become one of the top three manufacturers in the United States of electrical trains.
A state cannot be created by decree, but by the forces of a people and in the course of generations. Even if all the governments of the world gave us a country, it would only be a gift of words. But if the Jewish people will go build Palestine, the Jewish State will become a reality—a fact. [39]
Sand's explanation of the birth of the "myth" of a Jewish people as a group with a common, ethnic origin has been summarized as follows: "[a]t a certain stage in the 19th century intellectuals of Jewish origin in Germany, influenced by the folk character of German nationalism, took upon themselves the task of inventing a people "retrospectively ...