Dora Askowith (August 30, 1884 - October 23, 1958) was a Lithuanian-born American college professor, author and historian. She was director of the Women’s Organization for the

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Life

She was born in

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. She graduated from

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and

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. From 1912 to 1957, she taught at

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. For a short period in the 1920s, Askowith studied at Rabbinical school, although ordination was denied to female students.Nadell, P. S. (2003). American Jewish Women's History: A Reader. pp. 177-181.

Works

*''The toleration and persecution of the Jews in the Roman empire: Part I: The Toleration of the Jews Under Julius Caesar and Augustus'' (1915) *''A Call to the Jewish Women of America'' (c. 1917) *“Prolegomena: Legal Fictions or Evasions of the Law” in ''Jewish Studies in Memory of Israel Abrahams'' (1927) *"The Life and Work of Luigi Luzzatti" in ''God in Freedom: Studies in the Relations Between Church and State'' (1930) *''Three outstanding women,

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, Rebekah Kohut ndAnnie Nathan Meyer''(1941) *''The purchase of Louisiana'' (1953)

References

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* Jenna Weissman Joselit
A Tale of Two Flags, Confederate and Zionist
''Forward,'' August 8, 2015 1884 births 1958 deaths American historians Jewish scholars Barnard College alumni Columbia University alumni Hunter College faculty American Jews Women rabbinical students {{US-historian-stub