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Resources
Books about the Women of Valor
Beatrice Alexander
Secondary Sources:
Calvert, Catherine. "Madame Alexander: Dolls and Dreams." Town and Country, December 1983.
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Bella Abzug
Primary Sources:
Abzug, Bella S. Bella! Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington. Mel Ziegler, ed. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972.
Abzug, Bella S. Gender Gap: Bella Abzug’s Guide to Political Power for American Women. With Mim Kelber. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Secondary Sources:
Farber, Doris. Bella Abzug. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shephard, 1976. (for adolescents)
Antler, Joyce. The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America. New York: Shocken Books, 1997.
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Gertrude Elion
Secondary Sources:
Ambrose, Susan A., et al. Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch. Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries. Secaucus, NJ: Birch Lane Press, 1993.
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Ray Frank
Secondary Sources:
Clar, Reva and William M. Kramer. "The Girl Rabbi of the Golden West: The Adventurous Life of Ray Frank in Nevada, California and the Northwest." Western States Jewish History 18 (1986): 99-111, 223-36, 336-51.
Kuzmack, Linda Gordon. Woman’s Cause: The Jewish Woman’s Movement in England and the United States, 1881-1933. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1990.
Nadell, Pamela S. Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women’s Ordination 1889-1985. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
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Emma Goldman
Primary Sources:
Goldman, Emma. Living My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Rpt. ed., Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, 1934.
Shulman, Alix Kates, ed. Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman. New York: Schocken Books, 1982.
Secondary Sources:
Falk, Candace. Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman. Rev. ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Wexler, Alice. Emma Goldman in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.
Wexler, Alice. Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.
Drinnon, Richard. Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
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Rebecca Gratz
Primary Sources:
Gratz, Rebecca. Letters of Rebecca Gratz. Rabbi David Philipson, ed.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1929.
Secondary Sources:
Ashton, Dianne. Rebecca Gratz: Women's Judaism in Antebellum
America. Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 1997.
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Glikl Bas Judah of Hameln
Primary Sources:
Glikl, of Hameln. The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln. Marvin Lowenthal,
trans. New York: Schocken Books, 1989.
Secondary Sources:
Davis, Natalie Zemon. Women on the Margins: Three
Seventeenth-Century Lives. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press, 1995.
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Emma Lazarus
Primary Sources:
Lazarus, Emma. An Epistle to the Hebrews. With introduction and notes
by Morris U.Schappes. New York : Jewish Historical Society of New
York, 1987.
Lazarus, Emma. Selections from Her Poetry and Prose. Edited with an
introduction by Morris U. Schappes. New York: Cooperative Book
League, 1944.
Secondary Sources:
Lichtenstein, Diane. Writing Their Nations : The Tradition of
Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers. Bloomington :
Indiana University Press, 1992.
Young, Bette Roth. Emma Lazarus in Her World: Life and Letters.
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1995.
Children's Books:
Levinson, Nancy Smiler. I Lift My Lamp: Emma Lazarus and the Statue
of Liberty. New York: Dutton, 1986.
Merriam, Eve. The Voice of Liberty: the Story of Emma Lazarus. New
York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959.
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Barbara Myerhoff
Primary Sources:
Myerhoff, Barbara. Number Our Days. New York: Dutton, 1978.
Myerhoff, Barbara. Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974.
Secondary Sources:
Frank, Geyla. "The Ethnographic Films of Barbara G. Myerhoff: Anthropology, Feminism, and the Politics of Jewish Identity." Women Writing Culture. Eds. Ruth Behar and Deborah A Gordon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Prell, Riv-Ellen. "The Double Frame of Life History in the Work of Barbara Myerhoff." Interpreting Women’s Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Eds The Personal Narratives Group, Joy Webster Barbre, et al. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
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Molly Picon
Primary Sources:
Picon, Molly. So Laugh a Little. New York: Julian Messner, Inc.,
1962.
Picon, Molly with Jean Bergantini Grillo. Molly!: An Autobiography.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.
Children's Books:
Perl, Lila. Molly Picon : a Gift of Laughter. Philadelphia : Jewish
Publication Society, 1990.
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Justine Wise Polier
Primary Sources:
Polier, Justine Wise. Everybody's Children, Nobody's Child. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.
Polier, Justine Wise. Juvenile Justice in Double Jeopardy: The
Distanced Community and Vengeful Retribution. New Jersey: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1989.
Polier, Justine Wise. The Rule of Law and the Role of Psychiatry.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.
Secondary Sources:
Antler, Joyce. The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American
Century. New York: The Free Press, 1997.
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Bobbie Rosenfeld
Secondary Sources:
Cochrane, Jean, et al. Women in Canadian Life: Sports. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1977.
Howell, Reet, ed. Her Story in Sport: A Historical Anthology of Women in Sports. West Point, NY: Leisure Press, 1982.
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Rose Schneiderman
Primary Sources:
Schneiderman, Rose, and Lucy Goldthwaite. All for One. New York: P.S. Eriksson, 1967.
Secondary Sources:
Endelman, Gary Edward. Solidarity Forever: Rose Schneiderman and the
Women's Trade Union League. New York: Arno Press, 1982.
Orleck, Annelise. Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and
Working-Class Politics in the Unites States, 1900-1965. Chapel Hill,
North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
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Anna Sokolow
Primary Sources:
Sokolow, Anna. "The Rebel and the Bourgeois." In Selma Cohen, ed., The Modern Dance: Seven Statements of Belief. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966.
Secondary Sources:
Foulkes, Julia L. "Angels ‘Rewolt!’: Jewish Women in Modern Dance in the 1930s." American Jewish History 88 (June 2000): 233-252.
Jackson, Naomi M. Converging Movements: Modern Dance and Jewish Culture at the 92nd Street Y. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000.
Warren, Larry. Anna Sokolow: The Rebellious Spirit. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998.
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Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Primary Sources:
Solomon, Hannah Greenebaum. Fabric of My Life. New York, Bloch
Publishing Company, 1946.
Solomon, Hannah Greenebaum. A Sheaf of Leaves. Chicago: private
printing, 1911.
Secondary Sources:
National Council of Jewish Women. The First Fifty Years. National
Council of Jewish Women, 1943.
Rogow, Faith. Gone to Another Meeting. Tuscaloosa, Alabama:
University of Alabama Press, 1993.
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Henrietta Szold
Secondary Sources:
Dash, Joan. Summoned to Jerusalem : the Life of Henrietta Szold. New
York : Harper & Row, 1979.
Lowenthal, Marvin. Henrietta Szold, Life and Letters. New York:
Viking Press, 1942.
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Lillian Wald
Primary Sources:
Wald, Lillian D. House on Henry Street. New York: Henry Holt and
Company, 1915.
Wald, Lillian D. Windows on Henry Street. Boston: Little Brown and
Company, 1934.
Secondary Sources:
Coss, Clare, ed. Lillian D. Wald: Progressive Activist. New York :
Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1989.
Daniels, Doris Groshen. Always a sister : the Feminism of Lillian D.
Wald. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York,
1989.
Children's Books:
Rogow, Sally. Lillian Wald: the Nurse in Blue. Philadelphia, Jewish
Publication Society of America, 1996.
Siegel, Beatrice. Lillian Wald of Henry Street. New York : Macmillan
Press, 1983.
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Gertrude Weil
Secondary Sources:
Evans, Eli. The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
Rountree, Moses. Strangers in the Land: The Story of Jacob Weil’s Tribe. Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1969.
Smith, Margaret Supplee and Emily Herring Wilson. North Carolina Women: Making History. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
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