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Sources, credits for photos on the cover

1654-1880: Foundations of Freedom "Prayer for the Country": Gift from ARA Services, Inc. Conservation funds provided by the Robert Saligman Charitable Fund; "Torah scroll, Morocco": Nancy and Lawrence Gutstein Museum, Congregation Mickve Israel, Savannah; "Belle S

1654-1880:

Foundations of Freedom

"Prayer for the Country": Gift from ARA Services, Inc. Conservation funds provided by the Robert Saligman Charitable Fund; "Torah scroll, Morocco": Nancy and Lawrence Gutstein Museum, Congregation Mickve Israel, Savannah; "Belle Simon's silk-trimmed slippers": Staff photograph by Charles Fox at the National Museum of American Jewish History, Collection of Congregation Mikveh Israel; "Rebecca Gratz": Thomas Sully portrait of Rebecca Gratz, 1831, Bequest of Henrietta Clay, 1954.1936, Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia; "Confederate two-dollar bill with portrait of Judah P. Benjamin": Columbia, South Carolina, December 2, 1862, National Museum of American Jewish History, 1984.30.7.1; "Model of Mikveh Israel" is actually model of Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., created by Stuart Gootnick, NMAJH, 1986.16.1a, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Saligman Purchase Fund; "Levi Strauss & Co. trade cards": Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica.

1880-1945:

Dreams of Freedom

"1911 Cigarette card of boxer Charlie Goldman": ca. 1911, National Museum of American Jewish History, 1992.4.82; "Superman, DC Comics #1": Superman TM & DC Comics, all rights reserved; "Betty Boop": United Features Syndicate; Stamp "Boycott Hitler": ca. 1933, National Museum of American Jewish History; "Immigrants on Dock": Library of Congress photograph; "American Expeditionary Forces in France," NMAJH, 1996.51.4, Gift of Marilyn Lavin Tarr (daughter of Vinnie Blomberg Lavin); Typewriter of Nathan Fleisher, ca. 1920, National Museum of American Jewish History, 1982.38.1a.

1945-today: Choices and Challenges of Freedom

The Jewish Housewife's Guide: Joseph Jacobs Jewish Market Organization, New York: Diamond Crystal-Colonial Salt, 1951, National Museum of American Jewish History, 2006.1.6267, Peter H. Schweitzer Collection of Jewish Americana, Diamond Crystal and Colonial are trademarks of Cargill, Inc.; Aerial photograph of Levittown, Pa.: Inquirer archives; Photograph of Ethyl and Julius Rosenberg: International News Photos; Photograph of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marching with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: District of Columbia Public Library; Photograph of Meyer Lansky: United Press International; Photograph "Rose Ehrlich, Miami Beach, 1959": Collection of Barbara and Michael Schneider; "Sammy Davis Jr.": Staff photograph by Charles Fox at the National Museum of American Jewish History; Irving Berlin's piano, ca. 1908: Courtesy of Elizabeth Peters. (photograph by Zack Seckler); Newspaper clipping of Steven Spielberg: Courtesy of Steven Spielberg; Yentl storyboard from the "Papa can you hear me?" scene: Courtesy of Barbra Streisand.

Translations from "Prayer for the Country" on pages H5, H6, H8, and H10 provided by Rabbi Eli C. Freedman of Congregation Rodeph Shalom.