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Priscilla Murolo

Priscilla Murolo, a U.S. labor historian, is a senior member of the history faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and also teaches at the graduate program in Union Leadership and Activism at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 

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Communism in the United States

From the 1920s into the 1950s, the Communist Party USA was the most dynamic sector of the American left, and Jewish women—especially Yiddish-speaking immigrants and their American-born daughters—were a major force within the party and its affiliated organizations. Their numbers included community organizers, labor activists, students, artists and intellectuals. When the communist movement faded in the 1950s, these women carried radical traditions into new movements for social justice and international cooperation.

Amy Swerdlow

Amy Swerdlow (1923-2012), child of a Communist household in the Bronx, shared her parents’ dedication to making a better world but developed her own political agenda. She became a leader of the global women’s peace movement, a pioneer in the field of women’s history, and a professor of history and women’s studies at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Priscilla Murolo." (Viewed on March 19, 2024) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/murolo-priscilla>.