Trude Weiss-Rosmarin

Writer, educator, and feminist Trude Weiss-Rosmarin was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and received a doctorate in Semitics, archaeology, and philosophy from the University of Würzburg. She was a trailblazer in analyzing and questioning the role of women in Judaism, demanding more rights and better education for women in Jewish contexts. Upon arriving in the United States in 1931, she opened the School of the Jewish Woman in New York City. Weiss-Rosmarin published a number of books and wrote for several journals during her career, including the Jewish Spectator, which began at the School of the Jewish Woman. A committed Zionist all her life, in her later years she became an advocate for Jewish–Arab coexistence.