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“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.”….

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The Issue is Silence: An Address by Rabbi Joachim Prinz, President of the American Jewish Congress, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963

From American Jewish Congress records

Courtesy of American Jewish Historical Society 

Allied in the Fight: Jews, Blacks and the Struggle for Civil Rights is on view through October 09, 2015

A
new exhibit on display in…

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