The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

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Jane Nusbaum

Jane Nusbaum is a graduate student in the Ph.D. program in history at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. She is the program coordinator of the graduate program in women’s history at Sarah Lawrence College.

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Jeanette Goodman Brill

As the first woman magistrate in Brooklyn and the second in New York, Jeanette Goodman Brill believed women had an aptitude and responsibility to judge cases involving women and children.