biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1781–1869)
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| biography:
| Philanthropist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The daughter of prosperous merchant Michael Gratz, she helped found the Philadelphia Orphan Society (1815). In 1838 she founded the first Hebrew Sunday School Society and was its president until 1864. She is said to have been the inspiration for Rebecca in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. |
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