Sophie A. Udin fought for women's rights and equal pay, but she is best known for helping found the first libraries in Israel and creating important American archives about Zionism, helping preserve vital documents and making them accessible.
Jewish women had trouble finding positions in libraries until the 1940s and 1950s. Beginning in the 1950s, individual women librarians began to lay the foundation for cooperation in librarianship in synagogue, school, and center environments, as well as in specialized research libraries.
