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  • 10 Jewish baseball players from history who you may not know (but should) 
    Friedman, Caleb (Jewish Telgraphic Agancy (JTA), 2022-08-11)
    The author notes that most baseball fans are familiar with the famed Jewish players, Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, both of whom are in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He lists ten less well-known Jewish baseball players whose ...
  • 10 Times Jon Stewart Outdid Journalism 
    Fear, David; Grierson, Tim; Love, Matthew (Rolling Stone Magazine, 2015-08-05)
    Article in Rolling Stone Magazine describing episodes in the Daily Show with Jon Stewart in which Stewart engaged in more probing investigative journalism than did the mainstream press or cable news programs, often aiming ...
  • 100 Years On: The Jewish Suffragists Who Helped Women Win the Right to Vote 
    Anderson, Adrienne Wigdortz (Jewish Journal, 2020-08-14)
    Although Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth were some of the best known figures in the battle for women's suffrage in the United States, other activists played a significant role in the suffrage ...
  • 12 Angry Men 
    Lumet, Sidney (Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1957)
    One of Sidney Lumet's most critically-acclaimed films, 12 Angry Men is about twelve members of a jury who are deciding the guilt or innocence of a defendant. A guilty verdict would result in a death sentence. Eleven jurors ...
  • 1990: Sammy Davis Jr., Famous Convert to Judaism, Dies : Sammy Davis - a great mainstream star in an era when, as a black man, he couldn't stay in some of the hotels he performed in 
    Green, David B. (Haaretz, 2013-05-16)
    Part of Haaretz's "This Day in Jewish History" series, this article discusses the life, career and formal conversion to Judaism of the African-American entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr. The article notes that while Davis was ...
  • 2018 Survey of Jews in Canada: Final Report 
    Brym, Robert; Neuman, Keith; Lenton, Rhonda (Environics Institute for Survey Research, 2019)
    A survey of Canadian Jews that examines the Canadian Jewish experience. Modeled on the 2013 Pew Survey of American Jews (see the Pew survey in this collection), the Environics Institute for Survey Research looks at "what ...
  • 21 Short and Sweet Shel Silverstein Poems That’ll Bring You Back to Childhood 
    Silverstein, Shel (HarperCollins Publishers, 2022)
    In celebration of Poetry Month in April, HarperCollins published some poems by Shel Silverstein. Click on the link above to read the poems. For the New York Times obituary of Shel Silverstein, click on the link below.
  • 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover 
    Simon, Paul (PaulSimonVevo, 2013-09-11)
    A YouTube video of Paul Simon's hit "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover." Click on the link above to access.
  • A.M. Klein 
    Pollock, Zaillig; University of Toronto and University of Toronto Libraries; Klein, A.M. (University of Toronto Libraries, 2000)
    This is the entry for A.M. Klein in Canadian Poetry Online, a web site of the University of Toronto Libraries. It contains a biography, bibliographies, and a selection of his poems. Click on the link above to access.
  • Aaron Copland Collection 
    Library of Congress (Library of Congress Music Division, 2020)
    The Music Division of the Library of Congress has a collection devoted to Aaron Copland. It includes photographs, articles and essays he wrote, his notated musical scores, his correspondence, etc. Click on the link above ...
  • Aaron Copland: American Composer 
    Machlis, Joseph (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2020-11-28)
    Aaron Copland was a well-known American composer whose work explored distinctly American themes and genres. Click on the link above to read the Encyclopedia Britannica's discussion of Copland's prolific work. Click on the ...
  • Abie’s Yiddish Muse 
    Guttenplan, D. D. (The Nation, 2014-01-29)
    An essay on a biography of Abraham Cahan entitled "The Rise of Abraham Cahan." The essay reviews the life of Cahan, who was the longtime editor of the Yiddish language "Forward." Click on the link above to access this ...
  • Abortion rights crusader Henry Morgentaler, revered and hated, dead at 90 
    Martin, Sandra (The Globe and Mail, 2013-05-29)
    Lengthy obituary on the life, death and significance of Dr. Henry Morgentaler. Click on the link above to access the obituary.
  • About Jonas Salk 
    Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 2017)
    A brief biography of the Nobel Prize winning scientist, Jonas Salk. Click on the link above to access the biography.
  • Academic Angles 
    Chiat, Marilyn; Gruber, Samuel; Gurock, Jeffrey; Michels, Tony; Moore, Deborah Dash; Prell, Riv-Ellen; Shandler, Jeffrey; Soyer, Daniel (Museum at Eldridge Street, 2009-01-08)
    Articles about the Lower East Side of New York City from leading Jewish history and preservation scholars, who participated in the Museum at Eldridge Street’s “Academic Angles” lecture series and walking tours. Click on ...
  • Activism, Anarchism, and Power 
    Kreisler, Harry (Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2002-03-22)
    An interview with Noam Chomsky, in which he outlines some of the influences behind his political views. He also discusses the relationship between the way he approaches science and the way he approaches politics. The ...
  • Adam Sandler’s Everlasting Shtick 
    Keiles, Jamie Lauren (New York Times, 2019-11-27)
    A biographical portrait in The New York Times Magazine of Adam Sandler who from 1999 through 2011 "would star in 12 of his own live-action comedies. All but “Little Nicky” — a hellish version of “King Lear,” in which Sandler ...
  • Adele Wiseman 
    Brown, Michael (Jewish Women's Archive, 2009-02-27)
    A biographical essay on Adele Wiseman, whom the author credits as being "[o]ne of Canada’s most highly regarded writers of the second half of the twentieth century." The article describes how Wiseman, who was born in 1928 ...
  • Admetus, & Other Poems 
    Lazarus, Emma (University of Michigan Library, 2005)
    Book of poems by Emma Lazarus. Click on the link above to see the University of Michigan Library catalog record and to view or download the book.
  • Adolph Ochs (1858-1935) 
    Lukesh, Susan S. (German Historical Institute, 2012-06-19)
    A biography of Adolph S. Ochs, who "was the foremost newspaper publisher of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. He resurrected the New York Times after purchasing it in 1896, and brought his own rigorous ...

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