The history of Jewish Americans as well as their culture, people and accomplishments are presented in this fourth program of Jewish American Achievement. Chapter List 1.) 1925 - Florence Prag Kahn Becomes the First Jewish American Woman in Congress - Florence Prag Kahn of California was the first minority woman elected to Congress's House of Representatives, and would open the door for other Jewish women in politics, including Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein - 2.) 1925 - Edna Ferber, First Jewish American to Win Pulitzer Prize - Author Edna Ferber was the first Jewish American to win a Pulitzer Prize, for her novel So Big, and she was the first author to have her books turned into movies, including "Cimmaron," "Stage Door," and "Showboat," which became a musical play written by Jerome Kern Oscar Hammerstein. 3.) 1927 - Jolson and Gershwin Bring Jazz onto the American Stage - Al Jolson, who got his start in Vaudeville wearing blackface makeup, and George Gershwin, who got his start in New York's Tin Pan Alley, brought the Jazz of the Roaring Twenties into mainstream American culture; Gershwin with his composing of such pieces as "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Porgy and Bess." 4.) 1935 - The Marx Brothers Release A Night at the Opera - The Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico and Harpo, changed movie comedies with such hits as "Night at the Opera." 5.) 1938 - Painter Max Weber Founds Linear Expressionism - Max Weber, and his fellow Expressionists used Expressionism to show the deadly effects of the Machine Age, effects that could be seen in Nazi Germany's Kristall Nacht and the Holocaust; later, Weber would found Linear Expressionism as a transition to Modern American art.
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