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And yet I had a dreadful feeling! I saw my situation as absurd, paradoxical. I was defending the lives of several militants. I was speaking in the name of the dignity and freedom of a people, and I…
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Gisèle Halimi
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1973
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October 19, 1851
[E]ven here, in this far-famed land of freedom and of knowledge, under a republic that has inscribed on its banner the great truth that all men are created free and equal and are…
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Ernestine Potovsky Rose
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Boston, United States of America
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1851
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Jewish Women Watching
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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In 1913 a Jewish girls’ school in Vilna called Yehudiyah, which provided supplementary education for girls aged seven to eighteen, published a publicity pamphlet in Yiddish…
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Paula Hyman
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New York, United States of America
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1995
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The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered…
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Betty Friedan
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1963
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This morning I met Vaclav on the street.
“God himself has arranged our meeting,” he continued after the usual greetings and inquiries about health. “Walking here, I thought of you.”
“Might I be able…
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Lev Levanda
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1871–1873
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The situation of the Jewish woman might well be compared to the situation of the Jew in non-Jewish culture. The Gentile projection of the Jew as Other—the stranger, the demon, the human not-quite…
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Judith Plaskow
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1983
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In a long poem written in 1960, when I was thirty-one years old, I described myself as “Split at the root, neither Gentile nor Jew, / Yankee nor Rebel.” I was still trying to have it both ways: to be…
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Adrienne Rich
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1982