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League Of Jewish Women (Germany)
The League of Jewish Women in Germany (german: italic=no, Jüdischer Frauenbund, JFB) was founded in 1904 by Bertha Pappenheim. Pappenheim led the JFB throughout the first twenty years of its existence, and remained active in it until her death in 1936.Dick/Sassenberg, S. 306 The JFB became increasingly popular through the 20th century. At its peak in 1928, the organization had 50,000 members from 34 local branches and 430 subsidiary groups. At the time, the JFB was Germany's third largest Jewish organization, with 15-20% of Jewish women in Germany becoming members. Growth out of the Women's Movement The JFB followed the 1899 founding of the German Evangelical Women's Association (german: italic=no, Deutsch-Evangelischer Frauenbund}), as well as the founding in 1903 of the German Catholic Women's Association (german: italic=no, Katholischer Frauenbund).Kaplan 1997, S. 26 It was the part of the period of activity some call "First-wave feminism", in which women in some countries, i ...
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Bertha Pappenheim
Bertha Pappenheim (27 February 1859 – 28 May 1936) was an Austrian-Jewish feminist, a social pioneer, and the founder of the Jewish Women's Association (''). Under the pseudonym Anna O., she was also one of Josef Breuer's best-documented patients because of Sigmund Freud's writing on Breuer's case. Childhood and youth Bertha Pappenheim was born on 27 February 1859 in Vienna, the third daughter of Recha Pappenheim and Sigmund Pappenheim. Her mother Recha, née Goldschmidt (1830–1905), was from an old and wealthy family in Frankfurt am Main. Her father Sigmund (1824–1881), a merchant, the son of an Orthodox Jewish family from , Austria-Hungary (today's Bratislava, Slovakia), was the cofounder of the Orthodox Schiffschul in Vienna; the family name alludes to the Franconian town of Pappenheim. As "just another daughter" in a strictly traditional Jewish household, Bertha was conscious that her parents would have preferred a male child. Her parents' families held traditional ...
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HaGalil
''haGalil'' is an online magazine published in German relating to the issues of Judaism, German Jewry and Israel. It is considered as the most widespread magazine of its kind in German, with over 380,000 monthly visitors (August 2009). Overview The magazine was established by David Gall in 1995, and is since then published by him and Eva Ehrlich, both of whom are German-Jews residents of Munich. The magazine operates two offices in Munich and Tel Aviv. According to an interview with the magazine editor conducted in 2001, the main goals of the magazine are to fight anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism on the web, and to supply data regarding Judaism, Jews and Israel. The magazine's motto is publishing a large number of authentic articles in these topics, in order to place hatred and neo-Nazi articles on a lower position in the internet search engines. HaGalil online presents articles and short communications on various issues related to Jewish life, Jewish history, culture and religion. A ...
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Jewish Nazi German History
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Feminist Organisations In Germany
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Organizations Disestablished In 1939
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1939 Disestablishments In Germany
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Organizations Established In 1904
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived from the Greek word ''organon'', which means tool or instrument, musical instrument, and organ. Types There are a variety of legal types of organizations, including corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, political organizations, international organizations, armed forces, charities, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, and educational institutions, etc. A hybrid organization is a body that operates in both the public sector and the private sector simultaneously, fulfilling public duties and developing commercial market activities. A voluntary association is an organization consisting of volunteers. Such organizations may be able to operate without legal formalities, depending on jurisdiction, includin ...
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1904 Establishments In Germany
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Leo Baeck Institute, New York
The Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI) is a research institute in New York City dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, founded in 1955. It is one of three independent research centers founded by a group of German-speaking Jewish émigrés at a conference in Jerusalem in 1955. The other Leo Baeck institutes are Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem and Leo Baeck Institute London, and the activities of all three are coordinated by the board of directors of the Leo Baeck Institute. It is also a founding partner of the Center for Jewish History, and maintains a research library and archive in New York City that contains a significant collection of source material relating to the history of German-speaking Jewry, from its origins to the Holocaust, and continuing to the present day. The Leo Baeck Medal has been awarded by the institute since 1978 to those who have helped preserve the spirit of German-speaking Jewry in culture, academia, politics, and philanthropy. Hist ...
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Julius Carlebach
Julius Carlebach (28 December 1922 in Hamburg, died 16 April 2001 in Brighton, UK) was a German-British rabbi and professor of sociology and history. Biography He was the grandson of Rabbi Salomon Carlebach (1845–1919) and his wife Esther Carlebach, part of the Carlebach family of prominent German Jews. Much of his family was imprisoned in the Jungfernhof concentration camp in Latvia. Julius and a sister escaped the concentration camps, being taken in by British foster families via the Kindertransport. Carlebach went to school in London, and was a sailor in the Royal Navy for ten years and managed an orphanage for Jewish children in Norwood. At the orphanage, he met South African teacher Myrna Landau, whom he married. In 1959 he went to Kenya, where he worked until 1963 in Nairobi and also served as rabbi and wrote about the Jewish community in that nation. In Kenya, the couple's two sons were born, Joseph Zvi Carlebach and Ezriel Carlebach. From 1964 he was a research student ...
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German Catholic Women's Association
The German Catholic Women's Association (german: Katholischer Deutscher Frauenbund), abbreviated as KDFB, is a federally registered Catholic lay women's organization and political interest group. The association has roughly 180,000 members in Germany with 1,800 branches in twenty-one German dioceses. The KDFB focuses on advocating for the rights of women in the Catholic Church in Germany and organizing educational seminars, crisis support programs, and religious pilgrimages and devotions for Catholic women. The KDFB promotes gender equality, environmental protections, charity, and education as Christian issues. The organization has been criticized by conservative Catholic organizations, such as the Forum of German Catholics, for supporting the Mary 2.0, Mary 2.0 movement and advocating for legal protections, equality, and Catholic Blessing of same-sex unions in Christian churches, blessings of same-sex couples. History The KDFB was founded on 16 November 1903 in Cologne for wo ...
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Jewish Women's Archive
The Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to document "Jewish women's stories, elevate their voices, and inspire them to be agents of change." JWA was founded by Gail Twersky Reimer in 1995 in Brookline, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts with the goal of using the Internet to increase awareness of and provide access to the stories of American Jewish women. JWA makes a growing collection of information, exhibits, and resources available via its website. Its activities include the conception, production and dissemination of: :* Community-based oral history projects :* Online exhibitions :* Original academic research :* Educational materials including curricula, a poster series and an oral history guide :* Training Institutes for educators working in formal and Informal education, informal settings :* Documentary film Starting in 2010, JWA also began holding an Annual Luncheon in New York City at which it honors three women for t ...
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