About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Latvian immigrants to Israel, Latvian immigrants to Norway, Latvian immigrants to South Africa, Latvian immigrants to the United States, Latvian refugees, Abraham Isaac Kook, Gil Kane, J. George Mikelsons, Philippe Halsman, Herman Branover, Eliyahu Rips, Nechama Leibowitz, Shulamith Shahar, Edmar Mednis, Vadim Demidov, Rutanya Alda, Gabriel and Maxim Shamir, Roberts Anc ns, Lipman Bers, Mordechai Nurock, Henry Stolow, Isabelle Liberman, Michael Polakovs, Dorothea Krook-Gilead, Dov Milman, Karlis Ozols, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Sarah Feigin, Elm rs Zemgalis, Ben-Zion Keshet, Ben-Zion Harel, Janis Roze, Morris Halle, Leo Michelson, Lucijs Endzelins, Shabtai Daniel, Zalman Suzayiv, Leonids Dreibergs, Rafael Bash, Yosif Feigelson, Bo eslavs Maikovskis, Dina Joffe. Excerpt: Eli Katz (April 6, 1926, Riga, Latvia - January 31, 2000, Miami, Florida, United States) who worked under the name Gil Kane and in a few instances Scott Edwards, was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics company and character. Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and co-created Iron Fist with Roy Thomas for Marvel Comics. He was involved in such major storylines as that of The Amazing Spider-Man #96-98 (May-July 1971), which, at the behest of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, bucked the then-prevalent Comics Code Authority to depict drug abuse, and ultimately spurred an update of the Code. Kane additionally pioneered an early graphic novel prototype, His Name is...Savage, in 1968, and a seminal graphic novel, Blackmark, in 1971. In 1997, he was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. Kane was born to a Jewish family that emigrated to the U.S. in 1929, settling i...
