"Jews don’t contribute to America — they undermine American values and culture!"
✡️Haym Salomon: Helped finance the Revolutionary War
✡️Emma Lazarus: Poet whose words ("Give me your tired, your poor...") are on the Statue of Liberty
✡️Irving Berlin: "God Bless America," "White Christmas," Broadway classics
✡️Ayn Rand (Alisa Rosenbaum): Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead
✡️Albert Einstein: Physicist; transformed modern science
✡️J. Robert Oppenheimer: Led Manhattan Project
✡️Levi Strauss: German immigrant; invented blue jeans (with Jacob Davis)
✡️Ralph Lauren: Helped shape classic American style
✡️Estée Lauder: Cosmetics pioneer
✡️Calvin Klein: Fashion designer
✡️Michael Dell: Founder of Dell Technologies
✡️Marcus Goldman & Samuel Sachs: Goldman Sachs
✡️Lehman Brothers founders (Henry Lehman et al.)
✡️Stan Lee: Marvel Comics (Spider-Man, X-Men, etc.)
✡️Hollywood studio founders: Louis B. Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. brothers (Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack), Samuel Goldwyn, Adolph Zukor (Paramount), William Fox, Harry Cohn (Columbia)
✡️Composers/Lyricists: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Carole King, Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman)
✡️Entertainers: Jerry Lewis, Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, Milton Berle, Jack Benny
✡️Gertrude Elion: Nobel in Medicine
✡️Carl Sagan: Astrophysicist and science communicator
✡️Others: Edward Teller (hydrogen bomb), Edwin Land (Polaroid/instant cameras), many Nobel laureates in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Economics (e.g., Paul Samuelson, Kenneth Arrow)
✡️Hank Greenberg, Sandy Koufax (baseball Hall of Famers)
✡️Artists: Mark Rothko, Judy Chicago
✡️Milton Glaser ("I ♥️NY" logo)
From financing the Revolution to inventing jeans to scoring America’s soundtrack — Jews have been an integral building block of America.