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The Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to document "Jewish women's stories, elevate their voices, and inspire them to be agents of change." [ 1 ] JWA was founded by Gail Twersky Reimer in 1995 in Brookline , Massachusetts with the goal of using the Internet to increase awareness of and provide ...
Maria Altmann (née Maria Victoria Bloch, later Bloch-Bauer; February 18, 1916 – February 7, 2011) was an Austrian-American Jewish refugee from Austria, who fled her home country after it was annexed to the Nazi’s Third Reich.
Guide to the Hadassah Archives on Long-term Deposit at the American Jewish Historical Society; Henrietta Szold Biography at Jewish Virtual Library; Women of Valor exhibit on Henrietta Szold at the Jewish Women's Archive; The Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem site. Office of Henrietta Szold (S48), Personal papers (A125) Papers, 1889-1960.
Bella Savitzky was born on July 24, 1920, in New York City. [6] Both of her parents were Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Chernihiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). [7] [8] [9] Her mother, Esther (née Tanklevsky or Tanklefsky), was a homemaker who immigrated from Kozelets in 1902. [7]
Miriam Weiner [1] (/ ˈ w iː n ər /) [2] is an American genealogist, author, and lecturer who specializes in the research of Jewish roots in Poland and the former Soviet Union. [3] [4] Weiner is considered to be one of the pioneers of contemporary Jewish genealogy through her work to open up archives [5] [6] and is described as a trail-blazing, highly respected guide and leading authority on ...
How did a young Jewish woman who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria in the late 1930s end up in New York and emerge as one of the most dynamic illustrators of comic books a few years later?
Regina Jonas Remembered at the Jewish Women's Archive website. The First Woman Rabbi in the World; Theresienstadt Ghetto "We Who Are Her Successors": Honoring Rabbi Regina Jonas, by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, published 2014 "Without Regard to Gender" A Halachic Treatise by the First Woman Rabbi, by Laura Major, published the summer of 2010
Trude Weiss-Rosmarin (June 17, 1908 – June 26, 1989) was a German-American writer, editor, scholar, and feminist activist. With her husband, she co-founded the School of the Jewish Woman in New York City in 1933, and in 1939 founded the Jewish Spectator, a quarterly magazine, which she edited for 50 years.