The Jewish Woman
Bertha Pappenheim
1935
The position of the Jewish woman in Germany today cannot be ascertained from understanding the present alone. A brief look at the recent and distant past—perhaps even the long-distant past—is necessary, and it is useful to retrace this thread so that a contemporary woman might come to regard experience, memory, and tradition as background for…
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