This Week in History

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September 8—September 14

1945

Bess Myerson Crowned First Jewish Miss America

Bess Myerson, 1957

September 8

1857

Birth of "Grand lady of the southwest frontier" in New York City

Flora Langerman Spiegelberg

September 10

2001

National September 11 Museum, April 2012

September 11

1995

Bella Abzug Addresses Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing

Bella Abzug Addressing the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 12, 1995

September 12

1925

"New York Times" reviews Yezierska's "Bread Givers"

Anzia Yezierska, July 3, 1922

September 13

1890

Ray Frank preaches on Rosh Hashanah

Ray Frank

September 14

1910

Alice B. Toklas Moves In Permanently with Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Paris, 1923

September 9

1997

Ruth Messinger wins Democratic mayoral primary in New York City

Ruth Messinger

September 9

2009

Kat Graham Stars in Pilot Episode of The Vampire Diaries

Image of Kat Graham taken on June 15, 2003.

September 10

1871

Birth of Inez Bensusan, Australian playwright, actress, and suffragist

portrait of a woman with dark hair

September 11

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Jewish Women's Archive. "This Week in History." (Viewed on September 11, 2025) <https://qa.jwa.org/thisweek>.