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Julius Rosenwald

Julius Rosenwald with students from a Rosenwald School. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library)
Posted inU.S.

This would be the only national park telling the story of an American Jew

by Mark I. Pinsky and Forward October 20, 2022October 20, 2022

A coalition of Blacks, Jews and others are lobbying for a new national park to honor the Rosenwald schools, which were founded by a son of German Jewish immigrants to […]

A restored classroom in Pine Grove School in South Carolina's Richland County, one of the "Rosenwald schools" funded by the Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald to educate Black children in the segregated South. (Photo/Andrew Feiler)
Posted inHistory

One photographer’s mission to preserve the legacy of the Rosenwald schools

by Dave Schechter and JTA April 15, 2021
Julius Rosenwald with students from a Rosenwald School. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library)
Posted inU.S.

Congressional act celebrating Julius Rosenwald’s ‘tzedakah’ would enshrine his memory in a national park

by Ron Kampeas and JTA December 23, 2020December 23, 2020
From the cover of "Memories After My Death," Yair Lapid's new biography of his father
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New biographies tell the stories of Jews who aren’t as famous as they should be

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 30, 2018August 20, 2018

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