{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  A list of 300 eminent Americans drawn up in 1953 (Richard Morris\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cem class=\u0022emphasisClass\u0022\u003EEncyclopedia of American History\u003C\/em\u003E) contains 12 Jews (4 per cent), all but three of whom (Cohn, Rabi  and Gershwin) belong to the pre-1880s immigration. They include four scientists (Boas, Cohn, Michelson, Rabi), two jurists (Brandeis, Cardozo), two newspaper editors (Ochs, Pulitzer), one  \u0026lsquo;educator\u0026rsquo; (Flexner), one labour leader (Gompers), one business tycoon (Guggenheim) and one composer (Gershwin). Would such a list, fifty years later, have omitted Jews from the list of  politicians, state servants, writers and artists?\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}