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This Week in History

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March 27—April 2

1951

Judy Holliday wins Academy Award for best actress

Judy Holliday with William Holden and Broderick Crawford, 1950

March 29

1928

Hadassah president Irma Levy Lindheim challenges American Zionist leadership

Irma Lindheim

March 30

1895

"The American Jewess" begins publication

"American Jewess" Front Cover, November, 1896

April 1

1999

Publication of Merle Feld's "A Spiritual Life: A Jewish Feminist Journey"

Merle Feld, 2010

April 1

1962

Frieda Caplan founds innovative specialty produce company

Frieda Caplan

April 2

2004

Dr. Sabina Zimering's memoirs come to the stage

"Hiding in the Open" by Sabina Zimering

March 27

2011

Orthodox basketball star Naama Shafir leads the University of Toledo to victory

Naama Shafir

April 2

1966

Death of Helen Menken, notorious and accomplished actress

Helen Menken, 1926

March 28

2009

Death of Ruth Fredman Cernea, cultural anthropologist of Jews in Myanmar and Washington, DC

Ruth Fredman Cernea

March 31

2014

Israel Holds Its First Ever Public Bsisa, a Women-Centered Tunisian Jewish Ritual

Bsisa ceremony

April 1

2011

First Episode of “Pati’s Mexican Table” Released

Pati Jinich

April 2

2006

Marthe Cohn, Holocaust survivor who spied on the Nazis, publishes her memoir

Poster for "Chichinette"

March 28

2022

Death of Jewish Disability Activist Sheryl Grossman

Sheryl Grossman

March 28

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