Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Women in Jewish History


Women in Jewish History Edit-a-thon
Center for Jewish History NYC
When and Where
TimeSunday, May 4, 2014 (noon - 5 pm)
AddressCenter for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
City, StateNew York City, New York
Justine Wise Polier

In 2014 the Center for Jewish History hosted an edit-a-thon centered on the topic of women in Jewish history.

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Event information

Light refreshments will be provided. Please bring a laptop with you!

Attendees

Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below.

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Confirmed

Tentative

Regrets

Online

  • czar  05:13, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Results

Possible articles to edit

Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.

Emma Lazarus

Individuals:

Alice Salomon
Anna Held I

Organizations:

Articles to be created:

Individuals

  • checkY Dina Abramowicz - scholar and former YIVO librarian Jewish Womens' Archive Women of Library History NYT obit
  • checkY Esther Frumkin Prominent leader of the Jewish Labor Bund in Russia. Also known as Khaye Malke Lifshits. YIVO Encyclopedia entry.
  • checkY Ruth Gay Librarian, author, and former editor of the JDC Review of the American Joint Distribution Committee. National Jewish Book Award winner in 1997. See Jewish Women's Archive article and LBI Collection. NYT obit
  • Melinda Guttmann Scholar of Bertha Pappenheim and creator of the one-woman piece Anna O's Private Theatre. LBI Collection
  • Clementine Kraemer German writer of poetry, vignettes, short stories, and novellas. LBI Collection
  • checkY Alice Davis Menken Social worker and activist for delinquent Jewish women in the early 20th century. Jewish Women's Archive Article and Papers at AJHS
  • Dina Dahbany-Miraglia Yemenite Jews scholar and linguistic anthropologist Papers at ASF
  • Kadia Molodowsky Yiddish poet and writer. YIVO Encyclopedia Entry Hebrew Wikipedia Entry
  • checkY Cecilia Razovsky Social worker and activist for immigrants in the US. Jewish Women's Archive Papers at AJHS ** Working on this! ShiraB1
  • checkYAnna Rozental Bundist leader closely associated with Jewish labor movement in Vilna. Jewish Women's Archive
  • checkYSelma Stern-Taeubler Historian and author. Jewish Women's Archive article and Papers at LBI.
  • Kate Wallach German immigrant and law librarian Jewish Women's Archive article and Papers at LBI.
  • checkY Pauline Wengeroff Jewish Modernist, reflections on the culture of Russian Jewry and the Haskalah. Jewish Women's Archive article and YIVO Encyclopedia entry.
  • Margarete Temmer Actress in Germany Papers and Microfilm at LBI
  • Rosalie Westreich Worked for the JDC in Paris, the United States, Munich and Teheran Papers at LBI
  • checkYElisabeth Freund She wored at the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia and became an authority on blind students. She also lectured and published on these topics. Papers and Microfilm at LBI
  • checkY Greta Loebl also known as Greta Schreyer Featured artist in the United States and worldwide. Papers at LBI
  • Ilona Kronstein Featured artist by Jewish Museum Vienna. Jewish Women's Archive article
  • Babette B. Buch German writer, who wrote for Aufbau. Papers at LBI
  • Toni Stolper Austrian journalist, wife of Gustav Stolper. Papers and Microfilm at LBI.
  • Edith Neumann Austrian Microbiologist. Papers and Microfilm at LBI.
  • Edith Hirsch (economist) [3] [4]
  • Johanna Meyer-Loevinson German radio personality from the 1920s and 1930s. Papers and Microfilm at LBI
  • Lessie Sachs German poet, artist and wife of Josef Wagner. Papers at LBI
  • Elisabeth Model German painter and sculptress. Papers, Microfilm and Art at LBI
  • checkY Erna Weill Sculptor

Organizations:

  • Young Women's Hebrew Association of Brooklyn
  • Young Women's Hebrew Association of Brownsville
  • checkYHebrew Technical School for Girls established 1880
  • Independent Order of True Sisters (Mutual aid society), established 1846
  • Federation of Sisterhoods (umbrella philanthropic organization) entry in Jewish Communal Register, 1917-1918
  • checkYJewish Big Sisters (correctional agency), established 1913 entry in Jewish Communal Register, 1917-1918

For further inspiration

See also:

Resources

  • Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia by the Jewish Women's Archive
  • Bibliography of women's resources at the Center for Jewish History
  • YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
  • Encyclopedia Judaica The electronic version of the 2nd edition (2007) is available onsite at the Center for Jewish History
  • Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook This journal, a key resource for secondary sources about German Jewry, is available onsite at the Center for Jewish History
  • American Jewish Archives Journal, published by the AJA, is freely available and keyword searchable.

Tools and templates

If you edit a page during this edit-a-thon, considering adding this template to the talk page by pasting this code: {{WJHNYC 2014 Editathon}}


Post edit-a-thon considerations: DYK

Newly created articles are eligible for Did you know? (DYK) nominations within the first 5 days of their creation. (One of the ways new articles are highlighted are in the DYK section on Wikipedia's Main page.) Read the instructions and nominate your own or other newly created articles!

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