Women in History
Nobel Prize Winners
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
I recently researched women with Jewish roots who have won the Nobel Prize. Seven people hold the distinction in a range of topics from medicine to chemistry to literature:
Gerty Cori was the third woman, and the first American woman, to win the prize…
Theodore Bikel Sings “Mu Asapru”
by J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S. candidate, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
Click here for audio.
Here is a classic Passover song which can be a fun challenge in counting backwards in Yiddish after drinking wine.
מה אספּרה, מה אדברה אותך
װער קען זאָגן, װער קען רעדן װאָס די 1 באַטײַט
איינער איז…
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….
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…