Jewish women–United States

  • Jewish women in New York

    Tapes selected from a panel on immigrant Jewish women which was part of a conference on Culture and Community among New York Jews which took place January 27-29, 1979, sponsored by the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research in cooperation with the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University and made possible by a…

  • Yom HaShoah service commemorating the Holocaust

    Women’s resistance in the Holocaust, a special program to mark Holocaust Remembrance day. Irena Klepfisz, Melanie Kaye and other women gather at Woman Books on April 21, 1982 to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the 39th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Broadcast on April 20, 1983.

  • The effects of racism on the economic rights of women

    This is the first tape of a symposium sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) recorded in Spring 1981. In this symposium, women from diverse ethnic backgrounds discuss racism: why it exists, who is racist, who benefits from racism, its effects both nationally and globally, and what Affirmative Action may mean to…