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References for Biographies

General

Brody S. Jewish Heroes and Heroines of America: 150 True Stories of American Jewish Heroism. Hollywood, FL, Lifetime Books, 1996.

Diner HR, Benderly BL. Her Works Praise Her. A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present. New York, Basic Books, 2002.

Henry S, Taitz E. Written Out of History: Our Jewish Foremothers. New York, Biblio Press, 1990.

Hessel CS. Blessed is the Daughter. Rockville, MD, Shengold Books, 1999.

Hyman PE, Moore DD. Jewish Women in America. An Historical Encyclopedia. New York, Routledge, 1997.

Jewish Virtual Library (A Division of the American-Israeli Co-operative Enterprise): Biographies of Jewish Women. http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/biowomen.html

Jewish Women’s Archive. http://www.jwa.org/main.htm

Shepherd N. A Price Below Rubies. Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press, 1993.

Slater E, Slater R. Great Jewish Women. New York, Jason David, 1998.

Taitz E, Henry, S. Remarkable Jewish Women. Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society, 1996.

Taitz E, Henry, S, Tallan, C. The JPS Guide to Jewish Women, 600 B.C.E. – 1900 C.E. Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society, 2003.

The Glass Ceiling: Biographies. http://www.theglassceiling.com/biographies/

Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. http://www.wikipedia.org

Bella Abzug

Faber D. Bella Abzug. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1976.

Kelber K. Gender Gap: Bella Abzug’s Guide to Political Power for American Women. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Ziegler M(ed). Bella! New York, Saturday Review Press, 1972.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Ruth Bader Ginsburg." OYEZ. U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia.
http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/107/print

"Ruth Bader Ginsburg." Supreme Court History Society.
http://www.supremecourthistory.org/myweb/justice/ginsburg.htm

"Ruth Bader Ginsburg." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 27 Mar 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg&oldid=45712713

Rebecca Gratz

Ashton D. Rebecca Gratz: Woman and Judaism in Antebellum America. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1997.

Sarna JD. American Jewish History 1654-2004. Celebrate Jewish Life in America, 1654-2004. http://www.celebrate350.org/

Ruth Gruber

Gruber R. Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent, New York, Wynwood Press, 1991.

Gruber R. Destination Palestine: The Story of the Haganah Ship Exodus 1947, New York, Current Books, 1948. Re-issued by Times Books, 1999.

Gruber R. Raquela: A Woman of Israel. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978. Re-issued by Random House, 2000.

Gruber R. Haven: The unknown Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees, New York, Coward-McCann, 1983. Re-issued by Random House, 2000.

Musleah R. Profile: Ruth Gruber. Hadassah Magazine, February, 2001.

Emma Lazarus

Jewish Women’s Archive. Multimedia exhibit on Emma Lazarus. http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/lazarus.

Golda Meir

Adler DA. Our Golda, The Story of Golda Meir. Viking, 1984.

The Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership: http://clem.mscd.edu/~golda/

Martin RG. Golda Meir: The Romantic Years. Bandwagon, Inc, 1988

McCauley K. Golda Meir. London, Chelsea House, 1985

Meir G: My Life. New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.

Meir M. My Mother Golda Meir: A Son's Evocation of Life With Golda Meir. Arbor House, 1983.

Pogrebin LC: Deborah, Golda and Me. New York, Doubleday, 1991.

Shenker, I, Shenker M (eds). As Good as Golda. The Warmth and Wisdom of Israel’s Prime Minister. New York, McCall Publishing, 1970.

Syrkin M. Golda Meir. Israel’s Leader. New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969.

Ruth Messinger

Forward 50. Forward. November 10, 2006.

American Jewish World Service. http://www.ajws.org/

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Biographical information for speakers. http://ushmm.org/

Letty Cotten Pogrebin

Patz A. Ms. Pogrebin. Making Judaism and feminism click. The Reporter. Women’s American ORT, Spring, 1998.

Hannah Szenes

Schur M. Hannah Szenes: A Song of Light. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1998.

Senesh H. Hanna Senesh: Her Life and Diary. New York, Schocken Books, 1972.

Henrietta Szold

Krantz H. Daughter of My People. Northvale, NJ, Jason Aronson, 1998.

Sophie Tucker

Tucker S . Some of These Days: The Autobiography of Sophie Tucker. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945.

Wenger BS. The Jewish Americans Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America. New York, Doubleday, 2007.