List of Jewish American businesspeople
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This is a list of Jewish American Businesspeople. For other Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
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Banking and finance [edit]
- Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management[1]
- Tomas Sabo, Chairman and CEO of Tomas Sabo Limited
- Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs[2]
- Ivan Boesky, Wall Street financier and arbitrageur [3]
- Asher Edelman, Wall Street corporate raider ("Wall Street" movie character)[3]
- Andrew Fastow, former CFO of Enron[4]
- Marcus Goldman, co-founder of Goldman Sachs investment bank[5]
- Alan Greenspan, Chairman and president of Townsend-Greenspan, economic consulting firm; former Federal Reserve Chairman[6]
- Bernard Madoff, former financier[7]
- Michael Milken, Financier, Junk-bond specialist[3]
- Ronald Perelman, American billionaire investor [8]
- Marc Rich, Oil trading[9]
- Robert Rubin, former Treasury Secretary, director of National Economic Council, and Chairman of Citigroup[10]
- Samuel Sachs, co-founder of Goldman Sachs investment bank[11]
- Jacob H. Schiff, Wall street banker, leader of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.[12]
- George Soros, Wall Street investor and foreign currency speculator[3]
- Michael Steinhardt, Wall Street hedge fund manager[3]
- Paul Warburg, Chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Company (predecessor of Chase Manhattan Bank), director of the Federal Reserve Bank[13]
- Bruce Wasserstein, American investment banker and businessman, CEO of Lazard and controller of Wasserstein & Co.[14]
- Sandy Weill, former Chairman and CEO of Citigroup[15]
Cosmetics [edit]
- Max Factor, founded the company which bears his name.[16][17]
- Estée Lauder founder of the company which bears her name.[18]:114
Food and retail [edit]
- Kenneth Cole, Founder of Kenneth Cole Productions INC[19]
- Nathan Eckstein, CEO of Schwabacher Brothers companies.[20]
- Diane von Furstenberg, Founder and CEO of Diane von Furstenburg[21]
- Calvin Klein, Founder and CEO of Calvin Klein[22]
- Ralph Lauren, Founder of Polo Ralph Lauren[23]
- Bernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, Inc.[24]
- Lawrence Marcus, VP Women's Department of Neiman Marcus[25]
- Sol Price, founder of Price Club (merged with Costco)[26]
- Julius Rosenwald, President and Chairman of the Board of Sears[27]
- Sholom Rubashkin, CEO of Agriprocessors[28]
- Howard Schultz, Chairman and CEO of Starbucks Coffee[29]
- Levi Strauss, founder of Levi Strauss & Co. clothing company.[30]
- Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy's department store[31]
- Stanley Tanger, Founder and Chairman of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers[32]
Newspapers and publishing [edit]
- Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw[33]
- Adolph Ochs, New York Times[34]
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., New York Times[34]
- Isaac Perlmutter, CEO of Marvel Entertainment [35]
- Reuben Sturman, adult magazine publisher[33]
- Mortimer Zuckerman, publisher of U.S. News and World Report and New York Daily News[36]
Real estate [edit]
- Sheldon Adelson, owner of Las Vegas casinos Venetian and Sands Casino[37][38]
- Mel Sembler, Florida-based retail real estate magnate [39]
- Bugsy Siegel, co-founder of Flamingo casino, co-owner of El Cortez hotel and casino[40]
- Steve Wynn, Las Vegas casino owner[41]
- Sam Zell, Chicago real-estate magnate[42]
Technology [edit]
- Beny Alagem, Israeli-American founder of Packard Bell [43]
- Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft[44]
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, Inc.[45]
- Michael Dell, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Dell[46]
- Lawrence Ellison, Founder of Oracle Corporation[47]
- Larry Page, CEO and co-founder of Google Inchttp://web.archive.org/web/20110714111625/http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2007/2007-02/200702-BrinFeature.htmlhttp://web.archive.org/web/20110714111625/http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2007/2007-02/200702-BrinFeature.html
- Philippe Kahn, creator of the Camera Phone, Founder of Fullpower, Borland[48]
- Benjamin M. Rosen, founding investor and former Chairman and CEO of Compaq [49]
- Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook[50]
Television, film and video [edit]
- Herbert Allen, Jr., CEO of entertainment investment house Allen & Company[51]
- Edgar Bronfman Jr., CEO of Seagram, Viacom[51]
- Harry Cohn, founder of Columbia Pictures[52]
- Barry Diller, CEO of 20th Century Fox and QVC[51]
- Gerald Levin, Time Warner, CEO of HBO[51]
- Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney[51]
- William Fox, founder of Fox Film Corporation[53]
- David Geffen, co-founder of DreamWorks, CEO of Geffen Records[51]
- Adam Glasser, founder of Seymore Inc, producer of Seymore Butts videos[33]
- Leonard Goldenson, president of ABC[54]
- Steven Hirsch, founder and co-chairman of Vivid Entertainment[33]
- Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of DreamWorks, Disney[51]
- Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Pictures[55]
- Louis B. Mayer, founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [56]
- Les Moonves, CBS President[57]
- William S. Paley, Founder And CEO of CBS[54]
- Sumner Redstone, chairman of CBS and Viacom[51]
- Michael Ovitz, president of Disney, founder of Creative Artists Agency[51]
- David Sarnoff, founder of NBC, general manager of RCA[54]
- Sidney Sheinberg, executive of MCA[58]
- Steven Spielberg, director, co-founder of DreamWorks[51]
- Laurence Tisch, CEO of CBS[59]
- Albert Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers Studios[60]
- Harry Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers Studios[60]
- Jack Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers Studios[60]
- Sam Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers Studios[60]
- Lew Wasserman, founder of MCA[58]
- Harvey Weinstein, Co-founder of Miramax[61]
- Bob Weinstein, Co-founder of Miramax[61]
- Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures[62]
- Jeff Zucker, NBC President[63]
Notes [edit]
- ^ "The New York Times (NYT)". Jan 16, 2009.
- ^ "The Atlantic Wire (Atlantic Monthly online)". Jan 29, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e Shapiro, Edward (1995). A Time for Healing: American Jewry Since World War II. JHU Press. p. 117. ISBN 0-8018-5124-6.
- ^ Shay, Scott (2007). Getting our Groove Back. Devora. p. 243.
- ^ Supple, Barry E. (1957). "A Business Elite: German-Jewish Financiers in Nineteenth-Century New York". Business History Review (The Business History Review, Vol. 31, No. 2) 31 (2): 143–178. doi:10.2307/3111848. JSTOR 3111848.
- ^ Harlan, Stephan (2008). Encyclopedia of American Jewish history, Volume 1. ABC-Clio. p. 721.
- ^ Strober, Deborah (2009). Catastrophe: The Story of Bernard L. Madoff, the Man Who Swindled the World. Phoenix Books. p. 37. ISBN 1-59777-640-8.
- ^ Abigail Pogrebin. "Stars of David (book): Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish". Random House / Broadway. ISBN 0-7679-1612-3.
- ^ Ammann, Daniel (2009). The King of Oil. p. 32.
- ^ Maisel, Louis (2001). Jews in American Politics. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 445. ISBN 0-7425-0181-7.
- ^ Marcus, Jacob Rader (1993). United States Jewry, 1776-1985: The Germanic Period. Wayne State University Press. p. 268. ISBN 0814321887.
- ^ Cohen, Naomi Wiener, Jacob H. Schiff: a study in American Jewish leadership
- ^
- Harlan, Stephen, Encyclopedia of American Jewish history, p 181
- Landmann, Isaac, The Universal Jewish encyclopedia, p 454
- ^ Jewish, US Citizen
- ^ Langley, Monica (2004). Tearing Down the Walls. Simon and Schuster. p. 16,24. ISBN 0-7432-4726-4.
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/09/01/080901crbo_books_updike
- ^ http://reocities.com/HotSprings/Sauna/1932/factor/abrahamfactor.htm
- ^ Kent, Jacqueline C. (2003). Business Builders in Cosmetics. The Oliver Press, Inc. ISBN 1-881508-82-X.
- ^ Pogrebin, Abigail (2007). Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish. Random House, Inc. pp. 36–37. ISBN 0767916131.
- ^ The Jewish Transcript, June 25, 1926, quoted by Lee Micklin, Eckstein, Nathan (1873-1945), HistoryLink, August 26, 1999.
- ^ Karni, Annie. "Diane von Furstenberg's Family Drama", New York Post, February 11, 2010.
- ^ Slater, Robert (1996). Great Jewish men. University of Michigan. p. 167.
- ^ Slater, Robert (1996). Great Jewish men. J. David,. pp. 176–178. ISBN 0-8246-0381-8.
- ^ "World Retail Hall of Fame biography of Bernard Marcus".
- ^ http://books.google.com/books/about/Minding_the_Store.html?id=Q5a109z7AGMC
- ^ "Sol Price obituary".
- ^ Norwood, Stephen Harlan (2008). Encyclopedia of American Jewish history, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 406.
- ^ Reinitz, Jeff (May 27, 2010). "DCI investigator asked to guess ages of Agriprocessors workers". Waterloo Valley Cedar Falls Courier. "The Rubashkin family would fall under Ultra Orthodox, said [Rabbi Moses] Weissmandel."
- ^ Jewish American
- ^ Shapiro, Michael, The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of All Time, Citadel Press, 2000, pp 265-269.
- ^ Birmingham, Stephen, "The rest of us": the rise of America's eastern European Jews, Syracuse University Press, 1999, pp 327-328
- ^ "Stanley Tanger, outlet industry pioneer, dies". News & Record. 2010-10-24. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
- ^ a b c d Abrams, Nathan (Winter 2004). "Triple-Exthnics". Jewish Quarterly (Jewish Literary Trust) 196: 27–30.
- ^ a b Goldberg, J. J. (1996). Jewish Power. Addison Wesley. p. 301. ISBN 0-201-32798-8.
- ^ Rosenberg, Hilary (2000). The Vulture Investors. John Wiley. p. 351.
- ^ Lynfeild, Ben, (2008) "Jewish leaders fear anti-Semitic backlash", The Independent, December 17, 2008, [1].
- ^ Bergman, Ronen (2008). The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World. Simon and Schuster. p. 344.
- ^ Sheldon Adelson expected to set new charity donation record], The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, December 14, 2006.
- ^ Waveney Ann Moore. "Celebrating 75 years of faith, progress", St. Petersburg Times, March 7, 2004.
- ^ Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980, p 245. ISBN 0-231-09683-6
- ^ Raphael, Marc (2008). The Columbia history of Jews and Judaism in America. Columbia. p. 237.
- ^ Rosenberg, Hilary (2000). The Vulture Investors. John Wiley. p. 306.
- ^ http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Packard-Bell-Electronics-Inc-Company-History.html
- ^ Jewish mother
- ^ Jewish, US Citizen
- ^ Marcie Cohen Ferris, Mark I. Greenberg. Jewish roots in southern soil: a new history, University Press of New England, 2006, p. 300.
- ^ Jewish mother, Jewish adoptive parents, US Citizen
- ^ Self-identifies as Jewish
- ^ Taylor III, Alex (September 30, 1996). "Gentlemen, Start Your Engine Ben Rosen, 63, Of Personal Computer Fame, Has Teamed With His Rocket Scientist Brother, Harold, 70, To Pioneer A Radical Way To Power The Family Car". CNN.
- ^ http://www.heraldscotland.com/mark-zuckerberg-1.836693
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Goldberg, J. J. (1996). Jewish Power. Addison Wesley. p. 388. ISBN 0-201-32798-8.
- ^ Gabler, Neal (1988). An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. Crown. pp. 151–163. ISBN 0-385-26557-3.
- ^ Gabler, Neal (1988). An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. Crown. pp. 64–72. ISBN 0-385-26557-3.
- ^ a b c Goldberg, J. J. (1996). Jewish Power. Addison Wesley. p. 286. ISBN 0-201-32798-8.
- ^ Gabler, Neal (1988). An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. Crown. pp. 47–64. ISBN 0-385-26557-3.
- ^ Gabler, Neal (1988). An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. Crown. pp. 79–94. ISBN 0-385-26557-3.
- ^ Rebecca Spence, "Synagoge of the Hollywood stars starts fundraising", August 10, 2008. Haaretz
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- ^ Goldberg, J. J. (1996). Jewish Power. Addison Wesley. p. 297. ISBN 0-201-32798-8.
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- ^ Pogrebin, Abigail (2007). Stars of David. Random House. p. 366.
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