Weil took full advantage of the many cultural resources offered by New York City.

In this chatty letter, Weil gave her parents additional information about her matriculation at Smith:

In 1898, the Goldsboro Ladies' Benevolent Society—founded by Weil's Aunt Sarah—invited the outspoken feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman to give a seri

Although Weil turned down a nomination to the presidency of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs in 1917, she did serve as first vice president and as chair

A broad dedication to social justice underlay Weil's commitments to the many causes dear to her heart.

Viewing herself as "a product of the Lower East Side," Sokolow was shaped by the vibrancy of her neighborhood's street life.

As modern dance developed in the early 20th century, Jewish women were disproportionately represented among the new art form's students, teachers, performers and aud

On February 17, 1932, two Jewish dance students, Miriam Blecher and Nadia Chilkovsky, marched at a mass funeral in New York City for a union organizer killed by New Jers

As New York Times dance critic John Martin wrote in 1939, "Of all the dancers who have associated themselves with the political Left, none have made cl

Sokolow traveled to the Soviet Union in 1934 with musician Alex North, her companion of several years.

In a review in the New York Times, critic Clive Barnes wrote, "Anna Sokolow is a prophet of doom.

Taube Bienowitch was born into an educated and relatively affluent Jewish family in Lithuania.

Goldman met Jacob Kershner, a fellow immigrant and factory worker, soon after her arrival in America.

Opposed on principle to all forms of government, Goldman saw little value in fighting for the right to participate in a system she found inherently oppressive.

Ben Reitman was a colorful figure.

Abraham Goldman was twenty-four years old and a handsome and dashing young man when his daughter Emma was born.

Access to birth control was highly restricted in turn-of-the-century America.

The 1901 assassination of President William McKinley by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz sparked a virulent burst of anti-anarchist hysteria.

When Ray Frank was born in 1861, the Jewish communities of the Western United States were still of very recent origins. Sizable Jewish populations had arisen only with the

Frank soon developed a reputation for healing congregational breaches, as she had between the Reform and Orthodox Jews of Spokane Falls. In 1897, Dr. M.S.

As an itinerant preacher and lecturer, Frank built upon the experiences of many other nineteenth-century female orators. Women had long found their efforts to speak in t

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, as they watched the first women ministers occupy Christian pulpits, Jewish women began to raise the issue of their entry into the

Women have always been an important and visible presence in American Christian churches.