Anti-Semitism in the Women’s Movement
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
1982
Why now? Why write about anti-Semitism in the Women’s Movement when we have the Moral Majority and Ronald Reagan to worry about?
Because, very simply, it’s there. And because I am a Jew who has been finding problems where I had felt most safe—among feminists. […]
- A month or so before the United Nation’s Women’s Conference in Copenhagen in 1980, I…
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