Fifty Jewish Women Who Changed The World- Molly Picon, beloved star of the Yiddish Theater, Broadway, and Hollywood, blazed a trail for women in the entertainment industry. - Gertrude Stein not only declared "rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," but championed Picasso and other avant-garde painters and writers to shape the direction of twentieth-century art. - Housewife and journalist Betty Friedan penned The Feminine Mystique and kicked off a revolution called Women's Lib. - Anne Frank, hiding from the Nazis in an attic in Holland, created the diary that taught us all about the shining wonder of a girl's spirit. |
Contents
Deborah | 12 |
Doña Gracia Nasi | 26 |
Emma Lazarus | 44 |
Wald | 64 |
Rosa Luxemburg | 77 |
Emmy Amelie Noether | 96 |
Edna Ferber | 111 |
Peggy Guggenheim | 131 |
Pauline Trigère | 188 |
Barbara Tuchman | 203 |
Betty Friedan | 221 |
Grace Paley | 234 |
Cynthia Ozick | 247 |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | 264 |
Judy Chicago | 278 |
Sally Jane Priesand | 293 |
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