Bonus Episode: Our Stories, Our Resistance

At the Jewish Women's Archive, we’re closely following the attacks on democracy unfolding around us every day. In this special Can We Talk? audio essay, our own Judith Rosenbaum, JWA's CEO, calls out President Trump's moves to erase the histories of women and other marginalized groups. A version of this piece first ran on the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's website.

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Released April 15, 2025

The Jewish-American poet Emma Lazarus wrote the sonnet inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty. (Wikipedia; JTA illustration). Courtesy of JTA.
Documenter, researcher, and curator Miriam Novitch, 1985. Courtesy of the Ghetto Fighters House Museum/Photo Archives.
South African trade unionist and bookshop owner Fanny Klenerman. From Milton Shain, Looking Back: Jews in the Struggle for Democracy and Human Rights. South Africa: Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town, 2001.
Wearing impassive expression, CORE demonstrator Vicki Gabriner is carried off to patrol wagon at Brooklyn site. Photo by Paul DeMaria.