Woman in the Room (eBook)

A Jewish Life Through 100 Years of History

Sofia Groopman, Naomi B. Levine (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
240 Seiten
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-64742-703-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Born into a poor, immigrant family, Naomi B. Levine grew up in the Bronx and on Manhattans storied Lower East Side in an era when women were not encouraged to have lives of their own. Nevertheless, she managed to raise herself to prominence as a leader of Jewish affairs, champion of civil rights, and expert fundraiser.Poignant, direct, and inflected with Yiddishkeit,TheWoman in the Roomis the story of how Levine went from living in a crowded tenement with a shared bathroom to penning an amicus brief that was crucial inBrownv. Board of Education, assuming the Executive Directorship of the American Jewish Congress, and saving NYU from bankruptcy with the first billion-dollar capital campaign for a university.A lover of history, Levine describes not just her life but also articulates how the major historical events of the time emboldened her to take social and political positions that were in many circles unacceptable. She was an activist and a feminist before those concepts became part of our everyday parlance.TheWoman in the Roomnot only illuminates the decades Levine lived but furnishes future generations with the strength and courage to face the challenges before them.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.7.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 20th Century American History • 20th century history • 20th century Jewish American history • 20th century jewish history • Activist memoirs • American Jewish Congress • american jews • Bronx • Civil Rights • Civil rights memoirs • Civil Rights Movement • feminist • feminist memoirs • feminist stories • Fundraising • Jewish activists • Jewish memoirs • Jewish Stories • Jewish women’s memoirs • Jewish women’s stories • Jews in America • Lower East Side • New York • New York memoirs • New York Stories • philanthropy • women activists • women lawyers • women’s memoirs • women’s stories
• ISBN-10: 1-64742-703-7 / 1647427037
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64742-703-0 / 9781647427030