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Ernestine Rose redux
Happy to join @jwaonline @NCJW to celebrate #jewishwomenvote by reposting Ernestine Rose. The OG Jewish feminist, as my kids would say. 👇is last of 3, threaded below. She asked in 1851 -- If a marital merger of interests is so important, why…
"How safe we all felt when she had the floor."
Spending a last day on Ernestine Rose: as great a speaker as Anna Dickinson, as radical as Lucretia Mott. There were few Jews in the suffrage movement before the turn of the century, in part b/c Jews didn’t arrive in large # until the 1880s. Rose…
Let the identity and interest of the husband be merged in the wife.
For a marvelous recent assessment of Ernestine Rose, stop here and read @JudithShulevitz in @nybooks Then come back and we’ll talk a little bit about when women were property. As far as I know white men didn’t mortgage their wives, using them as…
The Rabbi's Daughter
Ernestine Rose was utterly self-possessed and extraordinarily lucky. She was an only child who inherited a fortune - and gave it back. She changed nations and languages more than once, establishing herself among intellectuals and reformers wherever…
Ernestine Rose did not fast on Yom Kippur
It’s Yom Kippur, which Ernestine Rose surely did not observe. As a child, she challenged her rabbi father on why G/d would require the pain of fasting. Comrade of Susan B Anthony, her motto was "Agitate, agitate." Truly the 1st Jewish feminist.