Subject Guide: Notable Jewish Women

Zeva Oelbaum Photographs (ASF AR 76) [Digitized]

Zeva Oelbaum is a photographer and a producer/director of films. She has taught at the International Center of Photography and is a member of the Producers Guild of America.

Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America Women's Division (ASF AR 2)

The Women's Division of the Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America was organized in 1943 and devoted its efforts to charity and Jewish and patriotic causes. During the war the Women's Division was engaged in Red Cross work and the sale of war bonds, it aided the Hebrew education of Sephardi youth with scholarships and prizes, and assisted Israel by participating in the rescue work of Youth Aliyah. The Women's Division assisted Sephardi communities abroad with food, clothes, and drug packages, and made contributions to the Rabbinical College of the World Sephardi Federation.

Papers of Aviva Ben-Ur (ASF AR 7)

Aviva Ben-Ur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Adjunct to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of History. This collection contains cassettes of oral histories of New York Sephardim, correspondence between Ben-Ur and various scholars of Sephardic studies, photocopies of historical essays about Sephardic topics, newsletters and other printed materials including maps and poems.

Papers of Joy Zacharia Appelbaum (ASF AR 55)

Joy wrote numerous articles for a wide variety of Jewish-American newspapers, including The Jewish Week, The Jewish Standard, The Cleveland Jewish News, and the Sephardic Home News. She served as the Executive Director of the International Sephardic Education Foundation (ISEF), funding scholarships for Sephardim studying in Israel, as well as serving for several years (1988-1991) as the Director of Public Relations for the Brooklyn based Sephardic Home for the Aged. 

Abraham and Irma Lopes Cardozo Papers (ASF AR 8)

Irma Cardozo joined the Dutch army in 1943, and as Corporal Irma Robles she was sent to Washington, D.C. to work in the Pentagon with the Dutch Marines. When the war ended, she came to New York to work in a branch of a Netherlands Bank. She later served as President of the Women's Division of the Central Sephardic Jewish Community of America and co-President of the Sisterhood of Congregation Shearith Israel.

As I lived it / Irma Miriam Lopes Cardozo. New York : Published by the author, 2010.

Famous Jewish women in history / [Judith R. Baskin ; editor, Sanford L. Batkin ; asst. editor and photographic research, Joan Roth].New York, N.Y. : American Friends of the David Yellin Teachers College, 1997

Sephardi and Mizrahi women write about their lives / coordinated and introduced by Debra Crespin and Sarah Jacobus ; with writing by Rita Arditti ... [et al.]. Eugene, Or. : Bridges Association, 1997.

The voice of liberty : the story of Emma Lazarus / by Eve Merriam ; illustrated by Charles W. Walker. New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy : Jewish Publication Society., 1959.