America Is Not Babylonia

Trude Weiss-Rosmarin

1953

But what about the future? Does the American-Jewish community possess those traits and characteristics which, as we know from the experience of a dozen Diaspora communities over two thousand years, are indispensable for the growth of the kind of Jewish integration and stamina that gave rise to the Babylonian Talmud, the Hebrew literature in Spain…

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Trude Weiss-Rosmarin

1908–1989

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.

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