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Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia

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Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero was a figurative artist concerned with difference and the representation of the body. Her art, she told us, "speculates on a sense of possibility and comments upon immediate events, political, sexual and otherwise."

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Susan Sontag

Sontag’s career-long series of essays—or "case studies," as she called them in Against Interpretation—revealed an expansive and democratic definition of art, encompassing such diverse subjects as photography, illness, fascist aesthetics, pornography, and Vietnam.

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Hannah Arendt

A political theorist with a flair for grand historical generalization, Hannah Arendt exhibited the conceptual brio of a cultivated intellectual, the conscientious learning of a German-trained scholar, and the undaunted spirit of an exile who had confronted some of the worst horrors of European tyranny.

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Activists Actors Anarchy Art Author Bible Books Business Choreography Civil Rights Communal Service Dance Education Feminism Fiction Film Hebrew Literature History Holocaust Jewish community Jewish education Jewish Law Jewish values Journalism Judaism Labor Labor Movement Law Lawyers Medicine Midrash and Aggadah Military Service Music Organizations & Institutions Painting Performance Personalities Philanthropy Physicians Poetry Political activity Politicians Psychology and Psychiatry Rabbis Racial discrimination Racial segregation Science Social Activism Social Welfare Teaching Television Tertiary education Theater Theme Vocal performance Women Writer Writing Yiddish Literature Zionism

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Countries

Algeria Argentina Ashkenaz Australia Austria Babylonia Belgium Bohemia Brazil Canada Caribbean Islands Cuba Czechoslovakia Denmark Eastern Europe Egypt England Ethiopia Europe France Galicia Germany Greece Hungary India Iraq Israel Italy Judea Kurdistan Latvia Lithuania Mexico Morocco Netherlands New Zealand North America Palestine Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovakia South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine USA USSR Venezuela Yemen Yishuv Yugoslavia

How to cite this page

Jewish Women's Archive. "Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia." (Viewed on May 24, 2013) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia>.