Item Description:

The familiar lessons of American history come to life as Rabbi Wein discusses notable American Jews and their influence on politics. Some advanced Jewish causes and will be sung as heroes in Jewish history, while others refused to help their brethren so that they might appear "unbiased." But for good and for ill, every case makes for a spell-binding story in its own right.

• Alexander Hamilton - was he Jewish?
• German Jewish immigration and its effect on Wall Street
• Oscar Strauss, ambassador to Turkey in providential times
• Brandeis & Frankfurter - two Jewish Supreme Court Justices
• how Truman's Jewish friend changed the face of history