Julie Rosewald
Julie Rosewald in unknown opera role, possibly
Prascovia in L’Étoile du Nord," given the
bridal-looking veil. From: A Woman of
the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy
Biographical Sketches Accompanied by
Portraits of Leading American Women in All
Walks of Life, Frances E. Willard and
Mary A. Livermore, eds. (Buffalo: Charles Wells Mouton,
1893), 1812.
Rights:
Public Domain
Description:
Julie Rosewald is the first woman known to have led services in an American synagogue. On September 20, 1884, the internationally renowned soprano led the congregation at San Francisco’s Temple Emanu-El in prayer following the death of its cantor Max Wolff.