biography
pronunciation:
[sonenshiyn]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1847–1932)
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| biography:
| Editor, born in Hungary. She emigrated to the USA with her rabbi husband in 1869, and became editor of American Jewess (1895–9), a newspaper for women. A moderate liberal, she was sympathetic to Zionism and believed in synagogal rights for women, along with home and marriage. Her 1880 essay, ‘The Pioneers’, described a St Louis women's literary society. |
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