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    Rec­om­mend­ed Reading

    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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