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Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia

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Joyce Brothers

During a public career spanning more than forty years, Dr. Joyce Brothers made the unlikely journey from housewife to celebrity quiz show contestant to the nation's best-known media psychologist.

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Activists Actors Anarchy Art Author Bible Books Business Choreography Civil Rights Communal Service Dance Demonstrations 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 Politicians Rabbis Racial discrimination Racial segregation Science Social Activism Social activist Social Welfare Teaching Television Tertiary education Theater Theme Vocal performance Women Writer Writing Yiddish Literature Zionism

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How to cite this page

Jewish Women's Archive. "Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia." (Viewed on May 21, 2013) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia>.