Michele Klein is an independent scholar. Her book, A Time to be Born: Customs and Folklore of Jewish Birth (Philadelphia: JPS, 1998, 2000), won the National Jewish Book Award. She has served as guest curator at The Jewish Museum London, Bar Ilan University's Department of Jewish Art, the Judah L. Magnes Museum at Berkeley, California, and Beit Hatfutsot Museum: Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv.
Hannah Floretta Cohen was the first woman president of Britain’s traditionally male Jewish Board of Guardians for Jewish Poor Relief. She also promoted many other Jewish and non-Jewish charitable organizations to promote women's education, to benefit the sick and the elderly, and to encourage investment in the Palestine Mandate, through her public speaking, financial expertise, and administrative skills.
