Unsung Women
Unsung Women | Miriam Spiria-Luria
If Miriam Spira-Luria were alive today, she’d be a public intellectual and a prominent voice on Jewish Twitter.
Unsung Women | Dona Gracia Nasi Mendes
She called herself a ‘nasi’ - a communal leader - in the 16th century Ottoman Empire.
Unsung Women | Bruriah, the sharp-tongued scholar
Bruriah is one of the very few female names recorded in the Talmud.
Unsung Women | Gluckl of Hameln, the original Yiddish tell-all writer
Gluckel was a woman determined to have it all — in 17th-century Germany.
Unsung Women | Felice Schragenheim, bravely partisan, openly queer
Schragenheim is perhaps best known for her enduring affair with Lilly Wust, the young wife of a Nazi soldier.
Unsung Women | Asenath Barezani, a 16th-century female sage
Her marriage contract forbade her husband from preoccupying her with domestic work, so she could devote herself fully to Torah study.
Unsung Women | Serah, keeper of secrets
Her name is only mentioned twice in the Torah.
Unsung women | Regina Jonas: The female rabbi you never knew about
“Almost nothing halakhically but prejudice and lack of familiarity stand against women holding rabbinic office.”
Unsung women | Flora Sassoon: She “walked like a queen, talked like a sage”
Born in Bombay, Sassoon became a successful businesswoman and philanthropist, with guts: she insisted on chanting from a Torah scroll in the 1800’s.
Unsung Women | Grace Aguilar: “The moral governess to the Hebrew family”
In the 19th century, she wrote that Jewish laws which degraded women were not the word of God but the wrongheaded ideas of men.