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#4) Ray Frank Litman, like Sarah Foner
(see #1) was a descendant of the great
rabbi, the Vilna Gaon. Apparently, she
also inherited some of his genius: she
was so well-known for her speaking
engagements at congregations
throughout the United States that
Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise in 1892 _
asked her to become the first woman
to attend the Reform movement's
Hebrew Union College. Though she
declined, Litman did go on to help
found the National Council of Jewish
Women.
#5) Hannah Rachel Werbermacher
(1805-1892) must certainly be one of
the most interesting, if unknown, fig-
ures in Jewish history.
Born in Ludomir in the Ukraine to
a chasidic family, Werbermacher was
an only child. Though she was always
interested in increasing her Jewish
knowledge, it was after she experi-
enced something of a miracle that
Werbermacher totally committed her-
self to a uniquely Jewish life. She
became ill and physicians gave her no
hope of surviving. But survive she did,
and after that Werbermacher began
regularly using tallit and tefillin and
spending every moment learning and
davening (praying).
Werbermacher built a synagogue,
which attracted many followers who
came to be called the "Chasidim of the
Maid of Ludomir.” From behind closed
doors (for reasons of modesty), she
would speak to the congregation every
Shabbat and on holidays.
When she turned 40, Werbermacher
married, but it did not last. Her once-
large following dissipated, and
Werbermacher moved to pre-state Israel
where she quietly spent the last years of
her life.
#6) Aletta Jacobs (1854-1929) is believed
to have been the first woman admitted to
a university in Holland, as well as one of
the country's first physicians.
#7) Dinah Shore (1917-1994) was the
first Jewish star at the Grand Old Opry.
A native of Winchester, Tenn., she also
appeared in numerous films and had her
own talk show.
#8) Lilian Mary Baylis (1874-1937) is
the woman behind London's Old Vic
theater company. She spent much of her
youth in South Africa, where she taught
left to his daughter, Babata.
Though Babata had no formal school-
ing, she was a clever woman. She mar-
ried Yeshua ben-Joseph and bore one
son, also named Yeshua. Babata was a
housewife and, after her husband died,
she hired two guardians to care for their
son. Apparently, the men were up to no
good: Babata appealed to the
governor because, she said, the
two had failed to properly pro-
vide for her son and she wanted
her money back. She got it.
Later, Babata married again, to
a man named Yehuda. After he
died, Babata became involved in
yet another legal tangle, this time
focusing on property in a dispute
with Yehuda's first wife. (And
you thought television soap
operas wove a tangled web?)
Babata came to live in Ein-
Gedi, a pivotal area during the
Bar-Kochba revolt against the
Romans in 135 CE. As the
Romans approached, Babata, car-
rying her toiletries and personal
effects, joined others who hid in
caves.
The Romans, however, quick-
ly discovered the Jews. They
found it diffi-
cult to enter
the caves,
which were
carved into
cliffs. So the
soldiers decid-
ed to wait it
#9) Edna Ferber (1887-
out, and in a
1968) of Kalamazoo
matter days, all
probably is best known
the Jews inside
for her novels and plays,
died of hunger
including Giant (1952)
and thirst.
(1926).
and Showboat
The victims'
She also co-wrote works
remains lay
with George S.
untouched for
Kaufman, published
all those years
several collections of
until
archeologists,
with
the
help of the
short stories and completed an autobiog-
Israeli
army,
managed
to
enter
the caves
raphy, A Peculiar Treasure (1939), about
filled
with
skeletons,
including
that of
her life as a young girl in Michigan.
Babata.
In addition to her writing, Ferber was
active on behalf of Jewish victims of the
#11) Jean Atlan (1913-1960) of Algeria
Nazis.
was a leading abstract painter. She was
part of a group of expressionist artists
#10) Babata lay quietly and peacefully
known as Cobra (for the first letters of
for more than 1,800 years, until, in
Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam,
1960, Israeli archeologists discovered her
the home cities of its members), whose
remains, along with personal and legal
first exhibit was held in 1949 in
items, and learned a great deal about life
Amsterdam.
in the second century CF..
This is her story:
#12) Soia Mentschikoff (born 1915)
Babata was the daughter of Simeon
was the first woman to teach law at
ben-Menachem and his wife Miriam,
Harvard University. Born in Moscow,
who lived at the southern tip of the
she served as dean of the University of
Dead Sea. Simeon spent his days over-
Miami (Fla.) Law School before being
seeing date palm groves, which he later
violin and banjo, as well as dancing.
After returning in 1898 to London, she
began co-managing a music hall, then
took over complete management of the
relatively unknown Victoria Theater
which, under her leadership, became one
of the most prestigious theaters in the
world.