Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia

Helen Tamiris
Helen Tamiris was a pioneer of American modern dance. She brought a social consciousness to the concert hall and went on to become the director of the Dance Project for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and later an acclaimed Broadway choreographer.

Bilah Abigail Levy Franks
No colonial American woman left a more engaging portrait of contemporary family, political, and social life than Bilah "Abigail" Franks.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein, the American modernist writer, was an international celebrity, an artistic iconoclast, and a self-proclaimed genius. Her experiments in poetry and prose still puzzle structuralist, deconstructionist, and feminist critics.


