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Wom­en’s His­to­ry Month

JBC Staff
March 1, 2013

March is Wom­en’s His­to­ry Month. Cel­e­brate with a few of the impor­tant Jew­ish women who have tru­ly made a dif­fer­ence. Find the com­plete list here.


A Life in Motion: A Memoir


And This Is The Light


Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Autho­rized Graph­ic Biography


Bar­bie and Ruth: The Sto­ry of the World’s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Cre­at­ed Her


Emma Gold­man: Rev­o­lu­tion as a Way of Life


Emma Lazarus


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