Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Women in Jewish History



In 2014 the Center for Jewish History hosted an edit-a-thon centered on the topic of women in Jewish history.

Event information

 * Date: Sunday, May 4, 2014
 * Time: 12:00pm - 5:00 pm
 * Location: Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th Street, New York, NY

Light refreshments will be provided. Please bring a laptop with you!

Attendees
Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below. Confirmed
 * Lange.lea (talk) 20:24, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * OR drohowa (talk) 20:48, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Bibliosaurusrex (talk) 15:28, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * RachelCMiller (talk) 11:51, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
 * kosboot (talk) 16:50, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Ruben Braunschmid
 * Pharos (talk) 19:32, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Dcb766 (talk) 14:53, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Rh236
 * StephanieLGrossMSLIS (talk) 15:36, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
 *  DGG ( talk ) 15:26, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
 * ShiraB1
 * Kschlot1 (talk) 13:24, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Weiweichatchat (talk) 17:23, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Jeremyb (talk) 17:48, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Islavuts (talk) 20:04, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Xylany|
 * Alexburg
 * Ellsler1

Tentative
 * nwhysel

Regrets

Online
 * czar ♔  05:13, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Results

 * Alice Davis Menken czar ♔  15:21, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Erna Weill Sculptor Kschlot1 (talk) 17:06, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Anna Rozental Bibliosaurusrex (talk) 18:08, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Added infobox and external links for Rosika Schwimmer RachelCMiller (talk) 18:11, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Added more citations for Rosika Schwimmer Bibliosaurusrex (talk) 18:51, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Hebrew Technical School for Girls created page Kschlot1 (talk) 19:06, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Created page: Pauline Wengeroff by User:Xylany and OR drohowa (talk) 19:12, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Created page: Elisabeth Freund - User:Xylany and User:OR drohowa
 * Created page: Ruth Gay - User:Xylany and User:OR drohowa.
 * Created page: Dina Abramowicz - kosboot (talk) 19:17, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Created page: Jewish Big Sisters - kosboot (talk) 19:17, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Expanded the stub Nora Levin Bibliosaurusrex (talk) 19:46, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Expanded the stub Malka Lee Rh236 (talk) 20:32, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Expanded Margarete Kollisch and added infobox --Lange.lea (talk) 20:34, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Created Greta Loebl User:Islavuts
 * Created Selma Stern, Historian --Dcb766 (talk) 19:28, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Created Esther Frumkin User:Pharos
 * Created Cecilia Razovsky User:ShiraB1

Possible articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.

Individuals:



 * Celia Adler
 * Lisa Azuelos
 * Jennie Loitman Barron
 * Vicki Baum
 * Marion E. Kenworthy
 * Alisa Greenblatt
 * Lotte Jacobi
 * Ida Kamińska
 * Lena Schneider-Kainer
 * Maid of Ludmir
 * Emma Lazarus
 * Malka Lee
 * Nora Levin
 * Justine W. Polier added references, removed refimprove Kschlot1 (talk) 18:08, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Alice Salomon
 * Mathilde Roth Schechter
 * Margarete Kollisch (see German Wikipedia Margarete Kollisch and the Margarete Kollisch Collection)
 * Carola Trier
 * Gerda Lerner
 * Frieda Wunderlich German economist, politician and sociologist. Papers and Microfilm at LBI.
 * Nelly Sachs
 * Bertha Pappenheim Information about Bertha Pappenheim is in LBI's papers on Ruth R. Dresner
 * Dolly Haas
 * Else Lasker-Schüler
 * Gertrud Kolmar
 * Ida Ehre
 * Rosika Schwimmer

Organizations:

 * National Council of Jewish Women
 * New York Radical Women
 * Progressive Jewish Alliance
 * Redstockings
 * Lilith Magazine

Individuals

 * Dina Abramowicz - scholar and former YIVO librarian Jewish Womens' Archive Women of Library History NYT obit
 * Esther Frumkin Prominent leader of the Jewish Labor Bund in Russia. Also known as Khaye Malke Lifshits. YIVO Encyclopedia entry.
 * Ruth Gay Librarian, author, and former editor of the JDC Review of the American Joint Distribution Committee. National Jewish Book Award winner in 1997. See Jewish Women's Archive article and LBI Collection. NYT obit
 * Melinda Guttmann Scholar of Bertha Pappenheim and creator of the one-woman piece Anna O's Private Theatre. LBI Collection
 * Clementine Kraemer German writer of poetry, vignettes, short stories, and novellas. LBI Collection
 * Alice Davis Menken Social worker and activist for delinquent Jewish women in the early 20th century. Jewish Women's Archive Article and Papers at AJHS
 * Dina Dahbany-Miraglia Yemenite Jews scholar and linguistic anthropologist Papers at ASF
 * Kadia Molodowsky Yiddish poet and writer. YIVO Encyclopedia Entry Hebrew Wikipedia Entry
 * Cecilia Razovsky Social worker and activist for immigrants in the US. Jewish Women's Archive Papers at AJHS ** Working on this! ShiraB1
 * Anna Rozental Bundist leader closely associated with Jewish labor movement in Vilna. Jewish Women's Archive
 * Working on this! Bibliosaurusrex (talk) 16:53, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Selma Stern-Taeubler Historian and author. Jewish Women's Archive article and Papers at LBI.
 * Kate Wallach German immigrant and law librarian Jewish Women's Archive article and Papers at LBI.
 * Pauline Wengeroff Jewish Modernist, reflections on the culture of Russian Jewry and the Haskalah. Jewish Women's Archive article and YIVO Encyclopedia entry.
 * Margarete Temmer Actress in Germany Papers and Microfilm at LBI
 * Rosalie Westreich Worked for the JDC in Paris, the United States, Munich and Teheran Papers at LBI
 * Elisabeth Freund She wored at the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia and became an authority on blind students. She also lectured and published on these topics. Papers and Microfilm at LBI
 * Greta Loebl also known as Greta Schreyer Featured artist in the United States and worldwide. Papers at LBI
 * Ilona Kronstein Featured artist by Jewish Museum Vienna. Jewish Women's Archive article
 * Babette B. Buch German writer, who wrote for Aufbau. Papers at LBI
 * Toni Stolper Austrian journalist, wife of Gustav Stolper. Papers and Microfilm at LBI.
 * Edith Neumann Austrian Microbiologist. Papers and Microfilm at LBI.
 * Edith Hirsch (economist)
 * Johanna Meyer-Loevinson German radio personality from the 1920s and 1930s. Papers and Microfilm at LBI
 * Lessie Sachs German poet, artist and wife of Josef Wagner. Papers at LBI
 * Elisabeth Model German painter and sculptress. Papers, Microfilm and Art at LBI
 * Erna Weill Sculptor

Organizations:

 * Young Women's Hebrew Association of Brooklyn
 * Young Women's Hebrew Association of Brownsville
 * Hebrew Technical School for Girls established 1880
 * Independent Order of True Sisters (Mutual aid society), established 1846
 * Federation of Sisterhoods (umbrella philanthropic organization) entry in Jewish Communal Register, 1917-1918
 * Jewish Big Sisters (correctional agency), established 1913 entry in Jewish Communal Register, 1917-1918

For further inspiration
See also:


 * WikiProject Jewish Women
 * WikiProject Women's History
 * WikiProject Jewish history
 * WikiProject Judaism

Resources

 * Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia by the Jewish Women's Archive
 * Bibliography of women's resources at the Center for Jewish History
 * YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
 * Encyclopedia Judaica The electronic version of the 2nd edition (2007) is available onsite at the Center for Jewish History
 * Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook This journal, a key resource for secondary sources about German Jewry, is available onsite at the Center for Jewish History
 * American Jewish Archives Journal, published by the AJA, is freely available and keyword searchable.

Tools and templates

 * WJHNYC 2014 Editathon

If you edit a page during this edit-a-thon, considering adding this template to the talk page by pasting this code:


 * Template:Infobox person
 * Template:LBI Collection Links
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox

Post edit-a-thon considerations: DYK
Newly created articles are eligible for Did you know? (DYK) nominations within the first 5 days of their creation. (One of the ways new articles are highlighted are in the DYK section on Wikipedia's Main page.) Read the instructions and nominate your own or other newly created articles!