Image: Signed First Edition of How to Make it in a Man’s World from the library of The American Jewish Historical Society
Before Sheryl Sandberg told women to Lean In, Letty Cottin Pogrebin (Born June…
“The First Jewish Feminist:” Ernestine Rose
By Jackie Brettschneider, Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
Ernestine Rose is popularly known as the first Jewish feminist. It didn’t take her long to realize that women weren’t treated the same way as men. Her views were extremely progressive even from a young age, and she stated that, “I was a rebel at the age of five.”….
By Jackie Brettschneider, Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
Jewish women have played an important role in improving the rights of women in both the secular and Jewish communities. Some Jewish feminists chose to work for the rights of all women and some chose to work exclusively for women’s rights within the Jewish religion. This created a divide between the broader feminist movement that…
by Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History
“Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night—she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—’Is this all?’ ”
— Betty…