Gerald Krefetz (died 27 January 2006)[1] was an
American author specializing in financial topics.
Personal life
He was married to Ruth Marossi Krefetz. Together the couple had Adriene and Nadine.[1]
Career
Krefetz wrote on the economic status of Jewish communities in America[2] and on
antisemitism.[3] In 1961, Krefetz was noted for calling attention to the lack of material about the
Holocaust in American school textbooks.[4][5]
Books
Money makes money: and the money money makes makes more money, 1970
^Edward S. Shapiro A Time for Healing: American Jewry Since World War II 1995 p123 "... without Money (1930) than to Gerald Krefetz's Jews and Money (1982). In describing the economic success of Jews in America, Krefetz noted that never in modern history had Jews been as wealthy or as powerful as in the United States."
^Boroson, Warren, "The money libel: Confronting a dangerous stereotype", Jewish Standard, 23 December 2010
^Fallace, Thomas, The emergence of Holocaust education in American schools, Macmillan, 2008, p 100.
^*Krefetz, Gerald, "Nazisim: The Textbook Treatment", in Congress Bi-Weekly, 28 (Nov 13, 1961), pp 5-7.