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The Jewish Woman Who Taught Us What We Know About Kids

If you thought our current obsession with all things parenting (like, ahem, parenting websites) was something new to the modern world, think again. Dorothy Walter Baruch, who was born in 1899, made the emotional, physical, and intellectual well-being of children her life’s work. Given how many of us agonize over the minutiae of our […]

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Discover the New England Bubbe Who Turns Out is a Literary Genius

Meet the Jewish Bubbe Who Happens to Be a Literary Genius

It’s a beautiful thing when a writer gets discovered. Especially when the writer is a Jewish grandmother in her seventies who has spent a lifetime mastering the art of the short story—an effort for which she is only now being recognized. Since her first publication in 1969, Edith Pearlman has published around 200 stories, […]

The Nobel-Winning Scientist Who Wouldn't Let the Nazis Keep Her Down

The Nobel-Winning Scientist Who Wouldn’t Let the Nazis Keep Her Down

Born in Turin, in northwestern Italy, on April 22, 1909, Rita Levi-Montalcini had began her research on nerve cells at the University of Turin. But after being banned from the university in a purge of Jews in 1938, and then forced to hide during the Nazi occupation of Italy, she immigrated to the United States […]

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Watch Emma Goldman’s Radical Life, 75 Years After Her Death

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The Woman Who Invented Barbie…and Prosthetic Breasts

How Jewish Actress Hedy Lamarr Paved the Way for WiFi

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How Jewish Actress Hedy Lamarr Paved the Way for Wi-Fi

The Jewish Woman Who May Have Discovered DNA

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The Jewish Woman Who May Have Discovered DNA

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The 19th-Century Lesbian Writer Who Met a Tragic End

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Nora Ephron + Lena Dunham = Love

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Muslim Enemy of the Reich

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