Ballots, Babies, & Banners of Peace

Professor of History and Director of Women’s & Gender Studies
  • Rowan University

This talk with Dr. Melissa Klapper explored the social and political activism of American Jewish women from the 1890s through World War II, focusing on three mass women’s movements of the day: suffrage, birth control, and peace. No history of first wave feminism is complete without understanding the outsize impact of Jewish women on these movements and the powerful effect of their activism on contemporary American life.