Edna S. Friedberg

Edna S. Friedberg is a historian at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, where she serves as Director of the Wexner Learning Center. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in modern Jewish history at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Her dissertation offers historical perspective on American Jewish services for the elderly.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Edna S. Friedberg." (Viewed on November 21, 2024) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/friedberg-edna>.