The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

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Esther Farber

Esther Farber is a free-lance writer and public relations specialist. She previously worked in marketing and communications for New York UJA-Federation and for CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. She received a master’s degree in public communications from Fordham University.

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Freda Resnikoff

Freda Resnikoff was a founder and dedicated leader of the Mizrachi Women’s Organization and mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother-in-law of three of its national presidents.

Letter from Henrietta Szold to Ida E. Guggenheimer, March 27, 1917.

Ida Espen Guggenheimer

Ida Espen Guggenheimer, a woman with a deeply ingrained sense of social awareness, was an early twentieth-century Zionist, a feminist, and a civil rights activist.