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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Pauline Newman was dykier than Rose. At 16 she led the biggest rent strike in NYC. After scores of friends died in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, she helped write & enforce NY safety laws. Led women in WTUL & ILGWU for decades. There's so much…

To ring in the Jewish new year, I’m highlighting 2 women whose impact on labor rights for all working people -esp. women- endures. Both fierce union organizers, suffragists, lesbians. Read @AnneliseOrleck1's profiles: Rose Schneiderman first. Shana…

Yes, they had a bake sale.
Black & white men & women didn’t share public space in the 1830s. Female Anti-Slavery Societies were an exception, esp Philadelphia’s. It was founded by Lucretia Mott & 17 other women, inc. Harriet Forten Purvis, her…

IHO @housingworks @brakingaidsride, today's @DailySuffragist celebrates the liberating force of cycling! This is more for bicycle buffs than suffrage enthusiasts. But it's worth watching for the story of Annie Londonderry alone. #Suffrage100…