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Subject Guide: Notable Jewish Women

Archival and library highlights found at the Center relating to the accomplishments and contributions of Jewish women around the world.

Poster announcing Pauline Dolinsky President of the Ladies Branch of Yeshivat Rabbi Yizchak Elchonan and the Ladies Kohl Aid Society, 1918 (Yeshiva University Museum)

Archival Highlights

Ina Golub (YUM 04)

Golub was a New Jersey-based artist, who primarily made fiber-based works with Jewish themes. She created custom-designed fiber art, including tapestries, Jewish ceremonial objects, and textiles with secular content, for synagogues, museums, and private collectors.

Papers of Ruth Abrams (YUM 08)

Between 1965 and 1966, Ruth Abrams was Art Director for the New School of Social Research Association. She also lectured at the Parsons School of Design and elsewhere on changing perceptions of space as affected by advanced space technology. Abrams is also an accomplished artist, focusing on visual perspective and the image of space and scale.

Sylvia A. Herskowitz Papers (YUM 10) 

Sylvia A. Herskowitz Archive documents professional and to a lesser degree personal life of Sylvia A. Herskowitz. Materials collected here shed light on her involvement with the Women's Branch of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America and various Parent Associations. The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, printed materials, sheet music, and writings.

Library Highlights

Diane von Furstenberg : the wrap / André Leon Talley. New York, NY : Assouline, 2004.

How American women artists invented postmodernism, 1970-1975 / curated by Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin. New Brunswick, N.J. : The Feminist Art Project, Rutgers State University of New York, 2006.

Jewish women and their salons : the power of conversation / [curated by] Emily D. Bilski and Emily Braun ; with contributions by Leon Botstein ... [et al.]. New York : Jewish Museum under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005.

Judith Leiber, the artful handbag / text by Enid Nemy ; principal photography by John Bigelow Taylor. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1995.
Stories untold, Jewish pioneer women, 1850-1910 : the art of Andrea Kalinowski / Andrea Kalinowski. Sante Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, 2002.