Lauren B. Strauss

Lauren B. Strauss is Senior Professorial Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Jewish Studies Program at American University in Washington, D.C. She teaches modern Jewish history, literature, and culture, focusing especially on the U.S. and Israel. Her research focuses on political and cultural history, with book projects on left-wing Jewish artists in New York in the interwar period, and on D.C. Jews' political and social history in the 20th century.

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Teacher and Jewish Communal Activist Sarah Kussy and Her Mother

Sarah Kussy

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Evelyn Garfiel’s Jewish scholarship on topics like the prayer book and the Hebrew language helped make Jewish study accessible to the broader public. She served on the boards of several Jewish women’s organizations and published a book in 1957 that explored the prayer book and explained the origins and purpose of different prayers.

United Synagogue’s Women’s League co-founder Carrie Dreyfuss Davidson

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