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Breaking through our Female Ancestor’s Brick Walls: Genealogical Sources for Maiden Names by Moriah Amit

In honor of Women’s History Month, I
would like to offer some guidance to those who are seeking to discover and
share the stories of their elusive female ancestors. One of the most common
“brick walls” that genealogy researchers face when tracing the family history
of a female ancestor is that their family doesn’t know her maiden name. For

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Women in the Performing Arts
Bertha Kalich: Star of the New York Stage

by J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S. candidate, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History

Above image: Yiddish theater poster for Bertha Kalich in Midway at Irving Place Theatre. c/o American Jewish Historical Society.

Bertha Kalich was born in 1874 in Lemberg in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, what is today Lvov, Ukraine….

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Women Represented in the Collections: Lucy S. Dawidowicz
by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History

Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990) was a Jewish-American historian well-known for her polemical writings on the devastation of the Nazi genocide and the historical rise of Christian and German anti-Semitism.

Dawidowicz, born Lucy Schildkret to immigrants of Eastern Europe in New York City,  was immersed…

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