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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…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Republic (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1935
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women did not participate in the free professions regularly because at that time institutes of higher education had not yet opened their doors to them. The…
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Pinchas Kon
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Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1929
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The range of my movement between “here” and “there” was supported by imagination and sustained by difference. In going to a women’s seminary, I remained…
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Tamar El-Or
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1998
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As I write these words it occurs to me that, since it is the woman who runs the household, she must have wide knowledge and be a good manager. For many centuries our nation ignored women’s education…
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Rosa Gabbay
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1871
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Vittorio Matteo Corcos
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
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1896
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It is you, modern girls, whom I address. The modern spirit has completely changed your natures. If the sages of old, who spoke so much about the wonderful strength of woman as opposed to man, found…
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Reina ha-Kohen
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1898
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This is an age of progress; and, surrounded as we are to-day by every evidence of the astounding advance that the nineteenth century has carried with in its train, I feel that I am flinging down a…
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Julia Richman
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1893
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My son, listen to my wisdom;
Incline your ear to my insight,
That you may have foresight,
While your lips hold fast to knowledge.
For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey;
Her mouth is…
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The words of a pure woman “more precious than rubies”
whose wish is to attend to studies,
and her name is the gentle Dinah:
She seeks counsel from the wise
for she fears lest her honor may everywhere…
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Samuel Archevolti
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
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1553
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Yaacov Ben-Dov
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1919