Profiles of more than one hundred Jewish women who have had a great impact in their respective fields of endeavor, including Golda Meir, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barbra Streisand, and U.S. senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. Their unusual achievements are interestingly presented and their relationships to Judaism highlighted. With black-and-white photographs.
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Robert Slater and his wife, Elinor Slater, are coauthors of the highly popular Great Jewish Women and Great Jewish Men.
Robert Slater was a reporter in the Time magazine Jerusalem Bureau from 1976 to 1996. He is also the author of Great Jews in Sports, Rabin of Israel, and Golda: The Uncrowned Queen of Israel. Elinor Slater has worked for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as the coordinator for U.S.-sponsored research programs since 1982. She has helped in the editing of all her husband's books and is active in the Israel Women's Network.
Elinor Slater, born in the United States in 1944, and Robert Slater, born in the United States in 1943, have been married since 1966. In 1971 they moved to Jerusalem, where they continue to make their home. The Slaters have three children, all of whom live in Israel.
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Much good work but not enough emphasis on Jewish values,
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This book has a great amount of commendable material in it. It writes of Jewish women of great distinction in short yet clear autobiographical sketches. It however diminishes its own value but including a too large number of present- day celebrities and lightweight figures. It too displays a certain political bias and there are a number of very left- wing politicians here whose contribution to Jewish life is extremely questionable. I also would have like to have seen many more of the great Jewish women intellectual figures, and heroines like Avital Sharansky , Ida Nudel and others who risked their lives for the Jewish people. A very large share of the entries are of people who have no real positive connection with Jewish communal life, and who just happen to be born Jewish something a few of them are not so happy about.
There is much good stuff here.But a work of this kind could have been done with far greater emphasis on real Jewish values.
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While there are some genuinely great Jewish women in this book, there are too many whose claim to greatness rests solely on fame and left-leaning politics. How is Barbara Streisand a "Great Jewish Woman"? Is it because she is a great Democtratic fundraiser? And How does Shulamit Aloni get to be great? By being an anti-Israeli Israeli? Diane Arbus (eeww) hated being Jewish and would be uncomfortable to see her name in this book if she hadn't killed herself, and Estee Lauder became a Roman Catholic........not exactly a "Great Jewish Woman".If your idea of greatness is actresses and singers or anybody Jewish who managed to get her name in the paper than this is your book. Rosalind Franklyn and Judy Resnick constitute real greatness, while Goldie Hawn is merely famous. I would never put them in the same category.
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I have been giving this as a Bat Mitzvah gift for years. Recently, 5 middle aged plus women in my congregation shared in a B'not Mitzvah Service. They were just as excited as the young ladies to get this book. It's fun watching them scan the contents and remark, "I didn't know xxx was Jewish?!" Perfect for any age. PG
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New York, United States, World War, Tel Aviv, South Africa, Ann Landers, Anna Freud, Anne Frank, San Francisco, Supreme Court, Ana Pauker, Theda Bara, Golda Meir, Nelly Sachs, American Jewish, Goldie Hawn, Orthodox Jewish, Rebecca Gratz, Bess Myerson, Henrietta Szold, Estée Lauder, Hannah Solomon, Ida Nudel, Lower East Side, Agnes Keleti New!
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New York, United States, World War, Tel Aviv, South Africa, Ann Landers, Anna Freud, Anne Frank, San Francisco, Supreme Court, Ana Pauker, Theda Bara, Golda Meir, Nelly Sachs, American Jewish, Goldie Hawn, Orthodox Jewish, Rebecca Gratz, Bess Myerson, Henrietta Szold, Estée Lauder, Hannah Solomon, Ida Nudel, Lower East Side, Agnes Keleti New!
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- The Promised Land (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Mary Antin on page 26, page 27, and page 28
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- Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth on page 33, and page 34
- Three Lives (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Gertrude Stein on page 265, and page 266
- An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books) by Lillian Hellman on page 119, and page 120
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- The Jews in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History by Martin Gilbert in Front Matter
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