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'''Dora Askowith''' (August 30, 1884-1958) was a college professor, author and historian. |
'''Dora Askowith''' (August 30, 1884-1958) was a college professor, author and historian. She was director of the Women’s Organization for the American Jewish Congress. |
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== Life == |
== Life == |
Revision as of 17:14, 28 April 2020
Dora Askowith (August 30, 1884-1958) was a college professor, author and historian. She was director of the Women’s Organization for the American Jewish Congress.
Life
She was born in Kovno. She graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University. From 1912 to 1957, she taught at Hunter College.[1]
Works
- The toleration and persecution of the Jews in the Roman empire: Part I: The Toleration of the Jews Under Julius Caesar and Augustus (1915)
- A Call to the Jewish Women of America (c. 1917)
- Jewish Studies in Memory of Israel Abrahams [Askowith only wrote the chapter “Prolegomena: Legal Fictions or Evasions of the Law”] (1927)
- "The Life and Work of Luigi Luzzatti" in God in Freedom: Studies in the Relations Between Church and State (1930)
- Three outstanding women, Mary Fels, Rebekah Kohut [and] Annie Nathan Meyer(1941)
- The purchase of Louisiana (1953)
References
- ^ "Dora Askowith | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.