The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

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Jeanne Abrams

Jeanne Abrams is an associate professor at Penrose Library at the University of Denver and is also the director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society at DU’s Center for Judaic Studies. Her publications include Blazing the Tuberculosis Trail in Colorado and A Place to Heal: An Early History of National Jewish Medical and Research Center, as well as articles on Colorado and American history. She is currently at work on a book about early Jewish women in the American West.

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Nurse and Patients at National Jewish Hospital

Seraphine Eppstein Pisko

Like many middle-class Jewish women at the turn of the twentieth century, Seraphine Eppstein Pisko used her experience in volunteer work to move into the realm of the professional workplace. As executive secretary and vice president of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives in Denver, Pisko was one of the first women to lead a national Jewish institution.