My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland by Puah Rakovsky New Year David Shneer tells their stories

David Shneer tells their stories and highlights their work through their very own images-he has amassed never-before-published photographs from families

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Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed immigrants’ names for them

My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland by Puah Rakovsky New Year David Shneer tells their storiesProfessional educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader Puah Rakovsky (1865 1955) was born under the Russian Empire and died in the independent country of Israel. No mere bystander to history, Rakovsky was an activist who assumed leadership roles in the public arenas of education and politics, founding the first Jewish girls school in Warsaw and a national Jewish women s organization in 1920s Poland. In her memoir Rakovsky reflects on the