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Ladies and Gentlemen:
The word “feminism” is interpreted in different ways. Some would grant [women] exaggerated rights. Others limit their demands to their simplest form without arriving at a proper…
Contributor:
Graziella Benghiat
Places:
İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1913
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Mrs. Frederick Nathan returned to New York last week after a summer spent in the various capitals of Europe, where she attended numerous congresses and met the leaders of the European feminist…
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Maud Nathan
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1913
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It is my pleasant duty, as chairman of the local committee, to extend to you all a hearty welcome to our city and to our Congress, the first Jewish Women’s Congress. It was with some misgiving that I…
Contributor:
Hannah Solomon
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1893
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Lily Delissa Joseph
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
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ca. 1906
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This is the story of a queen who gave her daughter in marriage to a young king and then gave her the following instructions, inasmuch as she was about to be married. Since she was sending the daughter…
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Isaac ben Eliyakim of Posen
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1620
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They present me with the bill
For not having been satisfied,
And they always surprise me with the wealth of their lexicon.
They ask me for a receipt for my fate,
And they make me think,
That…
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Nurit Zarchi
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2001
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convicted, with her husband,
of “conspiracy to commit
espionage”; killed in the
electric chair June 19, 1953
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Adrienne Rich
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1981
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“Ma’aseh Bruria,” a group creation compiled from Talmudic and Midrashic sources.
Conceived, originated and researched by: Gabriella…
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Gabriella Lev, Aliza Elion-Israeli
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1982
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As for me, my youth began very early. At the age of ten, I was already a grownup, a Polner mentsh, as the Jews said. Besides my diligent studies, back then I was a “God-seeker.” I felt confined, and…
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Puah Rakovsky
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1942
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This surprising 1942 Hebrew-language poster from Palestine calls for women to serve in an all-female unit within Britain’s Royal Air Force. This recruitment office was not open on Saturdays!
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1938–1948