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The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

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Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt

Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt is a painter and graphic designer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is senior book designer at Harvard University Press and exhibits her paintings in the Boston area. She has won awards for book design from the New England Book Show and the Association of American University Presses. Frankfeldt holds a B.A. in history, literature, and philosophy from Swarthmore College and an M.A. in modern European intellectual history from the University of Chicago.

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Tatyana Grosman, standing at a table in front of a bookshelf

Tatyana Grosman

Tatyana Grosman nurtured an entire generation of printmakers and raised printmaking in the United States to the status of major fine art. Universal Limited Art Editions, which she founded in 1957, published prints by many major American artists, and launched collaborative endeavors between artists and writers. Much of the press’s work was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme

Eydie Gorme

One of the great stylists of the American popular song, Eydie Gorme achieved national prominence with her appearances on Steve Allen’s Tonight! show, where she met and performed with her husband Steve Lawrence. Gorme’s dynamic nightclub act, frequently as a duo with Lawrence, drew sell-out crowds keeping true to the best traditions of the American “standard”—traditions she herself helped to establish.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt." (Viewed on December 10, 2023) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/frankfeldt-gwen>.

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