This Week in History

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January 13—January 19

2006

Opening of art exhibit of work by Holocaust survivor Daisy Brand

January 13

1939

NY Times hails Carnegie Hall performance by Rosina and Josef Lhévinne

Rosina Lhévinne with Vasily Ilyich Safonov and Fellow Pupils

January 14

1948

Department store pioneer Beatrice Auerbach receives Tobe Award

January 14

1962

Melissa Hayden premieres role of Titania in Balanchine ballet

Melissa Hayden, June 19, 1956

January 17

1983

Cynthia Ozick receives first Strauss Award

"The Shawl" Front Cover by Cynthia Ozick

January 19

2012

Los Angeles’ Woman’s Building remembered

Woman's Building, Los Angeles

January 15

1933

Birth of iconoclast intellectual Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag, 2001

January 16

1913

Henrietta Szold sends nurses Rose Kaplan and Rachel Landy to Palestine to begin the work of Hadassah.

Henrietta Szold and the First Graduating Class of Hadassah Nurses Training School, 1921

January 18

2015

Stephanie Pollack Named MA’s First Female Secretary of Transportation

Stephanie Pollack

January 13

2019

Yavilah McCoy Addresses the Women’s March in Washington, D.C.

Yavilah McCoy

January 19

2014

Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein win a National Jewish Book Award for “Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History”

Cover of "Sephardi Lives"

January 14

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