The Yiddish Book Center's
Wexler Oral History Project
A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
"Jewish Women Call For Change!"
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Martha Ackelsberg - Professor of Government and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College - talks about the beginning of her involvement in the Jewish feminist movement when she visited a Rabbinical Assembly with a list of demands.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Martha Ackelsberg.
This excerpt is in English.
Martha Ackelsberg was born in New York, New York in 1946.