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Gloria Greenfield

by JWA Staff
Our work to expand the Encyclopedia is ongoing. We are providing this brief biography for Gloria Greenfield until we are able to commission a full entry.

Gloria Greenfield.

Disturbed by growing anti-Semitism in the women’s movement, Gloria Greenfield left the movement and began creating documentary films that brought national attention to anti-Semitism in America and around the world. Greenfield began her activist career in college, founding a women’s center and several feminist student groups. In 1976, she launched Persephone Press, a radical feminist publishing company, and in 1980 she was cited as a “Woman to Watch” by Ms. Magazine. In 1983, she left the feminist movement, citing a number of cases where she and other Jewish feminists had been targets of anti-Semitism by other feminists. She worked as strategy manager for the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education and director of the Adult Learning Collaborative for Boston’s Combined Jewish Philanthropies before turning her hand to filmmaking. In 2008, she formed her own documentary production company, Doc Emet Productions, where she directed and produced several documentaries, including The Case for Israel (2008), Unmasking Judeophobia (2011), Body and Soul: the State of the Jewish Nation (2014), The Fight of Our Lives (2018), and Civilization in the Danger Zone (2022), garnering a number of awards. Doc Emet Productions continues to advocate for Israel and for upholding Judeo-Christian values, both through Greenfield’s films and a blog. 

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How to cite this page

Jewish Women's Archive. "Gloria Greenfield." (Viewed on October 7, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/greenfield-gloria>.