PUA RAKOWSKA AND HER STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS (Pua Rakowska i jej walka o prawa kobiet)

• Authors: Lisek Joanna
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Pua Rakowska (1865-1955) was a leader of the Jewish feminist movement in Poland, a Zionist activist, an illustrious teacher, writer and translator. She taught Hebrew and since 1891 she ran Hebrew schools for girls in Warsaw. She acted in left-wing Zionist organizations, led the 'Jiddischer Froyen-Farband in Poyln' (Jewish Women's Union in Poland). In 1935, she settled in Palestine. In her publications she focused on women's issues. Her memoirs, entitled 'Zikhroynes fun a yiddisher revolutsionerin' (The reminiscences of a Jewish revolutionary), were published in 1954; they showed this outstanding woman's difficult path to obtaining education and gaining personal and professional autonomy.

Keywords

EN

FEMINISM; JEWISH SCHOOLS IN POLAND; RAKOWSKA PUA; ZIONISM

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Żydow
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 2(231)
• Pages: 290-299
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lisek Joanna

• Joanna Lisek, Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Zaklad Studiów Zydowskich, ul. Szewska 48, 50-139 Wroclaw, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA068826