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    This discussion is inspired by an engaging project "Women’s History Commemoration Posts" shared here on the TPS Teachers Network by Cheryl Davis .
     
    Focusing on notable American Jewish women, you're invited to add as a comment to this discussion an individual whom you wish to recognize during Women's History Month.
     
    Please include a Library of Congress photo or alternate photo, a brief headline and a short writeup with links to supplemental material about your person.
     
    I've provided an example below for Molly Picon. There is also a listing of resources where you can explore notable American Jewish Women.
     
    Thank you for your participation. We look forward to celebrating American Jewish Women during Women's History Month this year!
     
    Molly Picon
     
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    Molly Picon, Star of Yiddish Theater & Film, Delights Audiences For Over 70 Years
     
    For over 70 years, Molly Picon delighted audiences with her comic song and dance performances. Picon performed on stage and in Yiddish and Hollywood films for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences around the world. Her engaging persona and powerful performances such as her starring role in the 1961 Broadway production of Milk and Honey helped keep Yiddish culture alive by bringing it out of the shtetl and into mainstream American culture. The Milken Archive of Jewish Music offers extensive material on Molly Picon - videos, articles, radio programs, podcasts, photos & press releases.  Molly Picon is given thorough coverage in Chronicling America including an illustrated April 8, 1962 Washington, D.C. Evening Star article "Molly Cooks in All Languages" complete with recipes. What a remarkable woman whom we hold in high esteem!
     
    Resources for American Jewish Women
     
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    Betty Friedan

    Betty Friedan

    https://www.loc.gov/item/95513152/

    Betty Friedan wrote about the “problem with no name.” Her book  The Feminine Mystique was a touchstone of the Woman’s movement.  How did her story re-awaken feminism in the 1960s & 70s https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=subject:friedan,+betty

    Thanks   Margaret Lincoln for this challenge.  Betty Friedan is a hero of mine.  I included this challenge on our LMS listing for Women’s History Month.

    Thank you,  Cheryl Davis , for including Betty Friedan as a most important addition to our recognition of American Jewish Women!  Your contribution is also a reminder that American Jewish Women have figured prominently in the Feminist Revolution. 

    Ever since I started working on the album titled "Bringing in the Hay," it seems as if rural connections keep popping up in my online life! While I don't have a specific woman in mind for your challenge,   Margaret Lincoln , I did run across this interesting essay from the Jewish Women's Archive titled "Jews and Farming in America." I thought it was a good fit, as well as a reminder that our stereotypes can really get in the way of learning more about racial and ethnic groups and their contributions. I mean, only through that article did I learn that the Taylor Farms salads I buy for lunches are a product of Earthbound Farm, started in the Carmel Valley backyard of Jewish farmers Drew and Myra Goodman in 1984!  

    Thank you, Mary Johnson , for adding a fascinating dimension to our research on American Jewish Women!
     
    Your suggestion to explore the topic of Jews and Farming in America led me to investigate Jews of the Wild West, also the subject of a 2023 PBS documentary.
     
    An article on "Jewish Pioneers" from the magazine Humanities pointed out that Wyatt Earp’s common-law wife was Jewish. 
     
    Not only is there in depth coverage of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp in American Jewish Archives but a presentation on "Lady at the OK Corral" was given at the Library of Congress in 2013.
     
    Josephine was born in Brooklyn, New York, to German-Jewish immigrant parents. At age seven she moved with her family to San Francisco.  She left home first at age 17 to follow a theatre company. She met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier boom town of Tombstone in Arizona Territory. The couple wandered throughout the West together until Wyatt Earp died in 1929. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, she and her husband are buried in a Jewish cemetery in the San Francisco area, where Wyatt Earp's fans make his grave the most-visited site. 
     
    Josephine Earp

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