THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
20
The Jewish Woman
A Woman Lawyer Who Has Made Good
Alfred Grunbcrg, in the May num-
ber of the American Magazine, says
in part as follows concerning Anna
Moscowitz, the eminent woman law-
yer, who came to New York at the
age of two years with her parents,
who immigrated to this country from
Russia.
At an early age she showed in
which way her ambition ran. If any
of her schoolmates had arguments
they always called her to settle the
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disputes.. She received the name of
the Little Judge.. Every member of
the family had to work hard ,to make
both ends meet. When she came
home from school she sewed on
dresses, made buttons and did other
kinds of work. When she was 6 years
old she made a few pennies and at
the age of 12 she was self-supporting.
She went to high school and colle-T
and it was her happiest day when she
showed her mother her degree.
At the suggestion of a friend she
studied law, winning a four years'
scholarship in the New York Law
School.
She says that when she entered the
class for the first time she chose a
seat near the door, so she would not
have to pass through the rows of
men, who stared at her as if she were
some strange being.
"Listening to lectures was like par-
adise," Miss Moscowitz says. "At
night and in the afternoon I taught
school to pay my expenses. But
teaching is quite different from sew-
ing buttons or keeping books. There
were times in my girlhood when my
back broke and my eyes ached and
burned. It seemed as if I could not
continue, as though I would break
down. I am not very strong physical-
ly, and I believe it was only the driv-
ing power within me that kept' me
on. I was in a strange land, a for-
eigner, and I had to make good. I
had to show Americans that Russian
Jews have stuff in them worth de-
veloping.
"I referred to my girlhood a mo-
ment ago. That was a joke—I had no
girlhood. Every moment was spent
in making money, in keeping a roof
over our heads. I threw my clothes
on and went to my day's work. I
took them off and dropped in my bed.
That was my life and my pleasure."
But Miss Moscowitz thinks it was
the best training she could have had.
It taught her to fight adversity and
gave Ifor confidence and ability. She
had worked and mingled with men all
her life, so it was not a strange thing
for her to be in the law profession
with them.
"I love to match my wits against
men," she naively admits. "It is great
fun, and I just love to beat them.
You ought to see how foolish men
feel when I win a case."
One group of her opponents felt so
foolish when they were defeated that
they hired her. It was a labor union
that she defeated in a case that had
been pending for five years. Miss
Moscowitz took it and established
her claim to recognition by winning
for the first time in the United States
a verdict against a labor union.
Whereupon the union promptly hired
her.
Miss Moscowitz is also chairman of
the woman's night court committee.
In the early days of her practice she
would go to the night court and de-
fend the unfortunates free of charge.
She feels that great injustice has
been done, and she is fighting for re-
form in the methods of the court. She
has already introduced legislation at
Albany tending in this direction.
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