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The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

Features thousands of biographic and thematic essays on Jewish women around the world. Learn more

Eli Lederhendler

Eli Lederhendler the Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of American Jewry: A New History (2017), Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism 1880-1920: From Castle to Class (2009), New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950–1970 (2001), and The Road to Modern Jewish Politics (1989).

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Elizabeth Holtzman

Elizabeth Holtzman pursued a public career epitomizing some of the most important trends in postwar American and Jewish life. In her successive roles as a congresswoman, Brooklyn district attorney, comptroller of New York City, and political commentator, she emerged as an effective and activist public servant, a forceful campaigner, and a champion of liberal and feminist causes.