num_pages: 204
description: Professional educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader--Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955) was born under the Russian Empire and died in the independent country of Israel. No mere bystander to history, Rakovsky was an activist who assumed leadership roles in the public arenas of education and politics, founding the first Jewish girls school in Warsaw and a national Jewish women s organization in 1920s Poland. In her memoir Rakovsky reflects on the position of Jewish women in her time and gives her personal and political perspective on central events of modern Jewish history from her childhood until her emigration to the Land of Israel in 1935.
language: English
title: My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland
titlecomplete: My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland
genres: Judaism, Memoir, Jewish, Poland, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 43
publisher: Indiana University Press