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The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

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Anita Kirchen

Anita Kirchen is an adjunct assistant professor of art and visual culture at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies and her research focuses on the multicultural and cross-cultural aspects of visual art combined with the influences of gender.

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Rebecca Solomon

Rebecca Solomon’s success as a professional artist was remarkable in the mid-nineteenth century, a time when women artists were the exception rather than the rule. While her artistic style conformed to the most popular art of the time, she used her visual images to critique ethnic, gender, and class prejudice in Victorian England.