A PICTURE PARADE OF JEWISH HISTORY Author:Morris Epstein " Great moments in the history of the Jewish people, told in fascinating comic-cartoon story-strips, with descriptive background information accompanying each true adventure" — CONTENTS:1)The Septuagint - Translation of the Seventy; Hillel - Snow on the Roof; Yohanan Ben Zakkai - 'Give Me Yavneh'; Akiba - Drops of Water; Bar Kochba - The Fall of... more » Betar; Judah Ha-Nasi - The Prince; Solomon ibn Gabirol - The Poet-Philosopher; Rashi - The Great Commentator; Judah Ha-Levi - Poet of Prophecy; Maimonides - 'From Moses to Moses'; Benjamin of Tudela - The Far-Wanderer; Meir of Rothenberg - The Prisoner; Nahmanides - Man of Many Names; Isaac Abravanel - The Noble Refugee; Friends of Columbus - The New World; Daniel Bomberg - The Master Printer; Joseph Nasi - The Duke of Naxos; Shabbatai Zevi - The False Messiah; Manasseh Ben Israel - He Opened the Gates; Asser Levy - The First Citizen; The Ba'al Shem Tov - The Boy Who Whistled; Solomon da Costa - The Seed That Grew; Moses Mendelssohn - He Broke the Ghetto Walls; Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev - The Rabbi and the Baby; Hershel Ostropolier - The Jester; Akiba Eiger - 'Servant of God's Servants'; The American Revolution - Road to Liberty; Thomas Kennedy - Fighter for Human Rights; Rebecca Gratz - Philadelphia Lady; Judah Touro - A Heritage of Charity; Mordecai Noah - Mr. Noah and Mt. Ararat; Uriah P. Levy - The Commodore; Adolph Sutro - The Man Who Dared; The Civil War - Medal of Honor; David Einhorn - The Rabbi Who Hated Slavery; Lincoln and the Jews -'Father Abraham'; Moses Montefiore - A Message from the Queen; Isaac Adolphe Cremieux - Minister of Justice; Emma Lazarus - 'I Lift My Lamp...'; Edmond de Rothschild - The Bountiful Baron; Alfred Dreyfus - For Truth and Honor; Theodor Herzl - Father of the Jewish State; Hermann Schapira - 'The Professor'; Solomon Schechter - Treasure in Cairo; Louis Marshall - Spokesman for Humanity; Arthur James Balfour - The Declaration; Chaim Weizmann - The Cornerstone; Eliezer Ben Yehuda - A Language Reborn; Henrietta Szold - Founder of Hadassah; Rufus Daniel Isaacs - 'A Man Adventurous'; Orde Wingate - The Commando; The Warsaw Ghetto - We Remember Our Heroes; Hannah Senesh - 'Blessed is the Match'; A State is Born - May 14, 1948; Mickey Marcus - The West Pointer; Stephen S. Wise - The Rabbi Who Served Mankind; Safed - A Handful of Heroes; Degania - The Tank Was Stopped; Albert Einstein - 'A Life Lived for Others'.
FORMAT: a page of text on the left hand page and a full comic strip page on the right hand page . In color. Illustrated by Maurice del Bourgo and F.L. Blake.« less