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Ethel Rosenberg

Convicted and executed on June 19, 1953, with her husband Julius Rosenberg, for conspiracy to divulge atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, Rosenberg was only the second woman in the United States to be executed by the federal government.

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Bilah Abigail Levy Franks

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

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Claudia Roden

Though Roden began her career as a painter, using the social realism style modeled after Diego Rivera, she was later drawn to food as a way of remembering her lost heritage in Egypt... Her nostalgia and determination to preserve a culture that disappeared during the Suez Crisis, and which had few written recipes, led her to begin her study of cuisine.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia." <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia> (February 9, 2010).