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Subject Guide: Women's Suffrage and Liberation

Archival and library highlights found at the Center relating to women's rights, political struggles, and successes.

Jewish Womens' Resource Center, 1994 (I-469, AJHS)

Library Highlights

Ballots, babies, and banners of peace : American Jewish women's activism, 1890-1940 / Melissa R. Klapper. New York ; London : New York University Press, 2013.

Fabric of my life, the autobiography of Hannah G. Solomon / Hannah Greenbaum Solomon. New York, Bloch publishing company, 1946.

Gertrude Weil : Jewish progressive in the New South / Leonard Rogoff. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Jewish voices in feminism : transnational perspectives / Nelly Las ; translated by Ruth Morris. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

My portion : an autobiography / Rebekah Kohut ; introduction by Henrietta Szold. New York : A. & C. Boni, 1927.

New Jewish feminism : probing the past, forging the future / edited by Elyse Goldstein ; foreword by Anita Diamant. Woodstock, Vt. : Jewish Lights Pub., 2009.

Ray Frank Litman : a memoir / by Simon Litman. New York, N.Y. : American Jewish Historical Society, 1957.

Reforming sex : the German movement for birth control and abortion reform, 1920-1950 / Atina Grossmann. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

The American life of Ernestine L. Rose / Carol A. Kolmerten. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1999.

The coming of Lilith : essays on feminism, Judaism, and sexual ethics, 1972-2003 / Judith Plaskow ; edited with Donna Berman. Boston : Beacon Press, 2005.

The story of an epoch-making movement / Maud Nathan. New York : Garland Pub., 1986.

Women in revolt : the fight for emancipation / compiled by Judith Kazantzis. London : Jackdaw ; New York : Grossman, 1968.

Women of courage : Jewish and Italian immigrant women in New York / Rose Laub Coser, Laura S. Anker, and Andrew J. Perrin. Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press, 1999.

Women of valor : stories of great Jewish women who helped shape the twentieth century / Sheila Segal ; foreword by Gloria Goldreich. West Orange, NJ : Behrman, 1996.

Jewish Womens' Resource Center opening at the 92nd St Y Library, 1979 (I-469, AJHS)