"Nice" Jewish girls / by Julie Merberg ; illustrations by Georgia Rucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merberg, Julie, author.

Contributor:

Rucker, Georgia, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish women--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Jewish women.

Jews--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Jews.

Women--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Women.

Women--Biography.

Jewish women--Biography.

Celebrities--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies

Juvenile works

Biographies.

Physical Description:

160 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Nice Jewish girls

Place of Publication:

New York : Downtown Bookworks, [2021]

Summary:

Presents thirty-six mini biographies that offer a fascinating window into the ways these extraordinary, outspoken and odds-defying Jewish women have approached their fields and embraced their identities.

Publisher Annotation: Thirty-six mini biographies of groundbreaking, outspoken, odds-defying Jewish women explore their fascinating lives, as well as the ways in which they were shaped by their heritage. Probing the lives of historic icons like Anne Frank to contemporary heroines such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the book also provides an overview of modern Jewish history. Subjects ranging from Anna Freud, the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology to fashion mogul Diane von Furstenberg to photographer Diane Arbus offer a fascinating window into the ways Jewish women have approached their fields and embraced their identities. The captivating stories of luminaries from the worlds of politics, literature, activism, the arts, business, science, and more show how these women?in many cases?overcame the obstacles of being both Jewish and female to make their unique mark?and how being Jewish impacted their journeys.

Contents:

Introduction

Activists. Henrietta Szold ; Emma Goldman ; Betty Friedan ; Gloria Steinem ; Alicia Garza

Entertainers. Hedy Lamarr ; Joan Rivers ; Barbra Streisand ; Sarah Silverman ; Tiffany Haddish ; Ilana Glazer ; Abbi Jacobson

Writers. Emma Lazarus ; Anne Frank ; Ruth Westheimer ; Judy Blume

Artists. Sonia Delaunay ; Diane Arbus ; Helen Frankenthaler

Scientists. Anna Freud ; Gertrude Elion ; Judith Resnik ; Janet Yellen

Entrepreneurs. Estée Lauder ; Diane von Furstenberg ; The wondrous Wojcicki women: Esther, Susan, Janet, Anne

Leaders. Golda Meir ; Hannah Senesh ; Bella Abzug ; Simone Veil ; Dianne Feinstein

Justices. Ruth Bader Ginsburg ; Elena Kagan

Jewish geography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 160).

ISBN:

9781950587094

1950587096

OCLC:

1276793167