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RBG's brave & brilliant women : 33 Jewish women to inspire everyone

Call Number

  • J 920.72 EPST (CEN, EAS, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Delacorte Press, [2021]

Physical Description

202 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm

Audience

Ages 10 up. Delacorte Press.

Summary

"A collection of biographies of Jewish female role models--selected in collaboration with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and including an introduction written by the late Supreme Court justice"--

Contents

  • Introduction by RBG
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Biblical times. Miriam ; Yocheved ; Batya ; Shifra and Puah ; Deborah
  • Ancient Israel. Salome Alexandra
  • Sixteenth century. Gracia Mendes Nasi
  • Seventeenth century. Glückel of Hameln
  • Eighteenth century. Rebecca Gratz
  • Nineteenth century. Ernestine Rose ; Fanny Mendelssohn ; Emma Lazarus ; Lillian Wald ; Emmy Noether ; Rose Schneiderman ; Sarah Schenirer ; Henrietta Szold ; Florence Prag Kahn ; Golda Meir ; Gertrude Berg
  • Twentieth century. Regina Jonas ; Rita Levi-Montalcini ; Bessie Margolin ; Bella Abzug ; Rosalind Franklin ; Betty Friedan ; Nadine Gordimer ; Muriel Faye Siebert ; Anne Frank ; Roberta Peters ; Judy Resnick
  • A call to action.

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