Sydney Stahl Weinberg

Sydney Stahl Weinberg was professor of history at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where she also served as director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program. Weinberg received her B.A. from Barnard and her M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from Columbia University. She was the author of The World of Our Mothers: The Lives of Jewish Immigrant Women. Weinberg passed away in 2021.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Sydney Stahl Weinberg." (Viewed on April 25, 2024) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/weinberg-sydney>.