Benny Goodman (1909–1966) Marika Somogyi (b. Budapest, Hungary 1933) USA, 1989 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.41 Benjamin David Goodman grew up in a tough Chicago neighborhood. His father took Benny [...]
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Robert Russin (New York, NY 1914-Los Angeles, CA 2007) USA, 1970 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.3 One of the greatest physicists of all time, Albert Einstein was [...]
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) Marika Somogyi (b. Budapest, Hungary 1933) USA, 1993 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.49 Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Bernstein began learning piano as a young boy when the [...]
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) Gerta Ries Wiener (Germany 1898-2000 New York) USA, 1971 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.5 Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky to Jewish immigrants from Bohemia, Louis Dembitz [...]
Hank Greenberg (1911–1986) Hall Reed (Oklahoma 1921-California 2003) USA, 1991 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.45 Born in New York City, Henry Benjamin Greenberg was known as “Hammerin’ Hank” due to [...]
Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745–1816) Gerta Ries Wiener (Germany 1898-2000 New York) USA, 1975 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.13 Among the earliest Jewish communal leaders born and educated in the United [...]
Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938) Gerta Ries Wiener (Germany 1898-2000 New York) USA, 1997 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.37 Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was born in New York City to a prominent Sephardic [...]
Barbra Streisand (b.1942) Alex Shagin (b. Russia, 1947) USA, 1997 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.59 Legendary entertainer Barbra Streisand was born Barbara Joan Streisand in Brooklyn. Displaying talent from a young [...]
Henrietta Szold (1860–1945) Gerta Ries Wiener (Germany 1898-2000 New York) USA, 1976 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.15 Henrietta Szold was born in Baltimore, Maryland a little more than a year [...]
Uriah P. Levy (1792–1862) Hal Reed (Oklahoma 1921-California 2003) USA, 1988 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.39 40 years before French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was court-martialed, convicted, and eventually exonerated [...]
