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Micol Seigel

Micol Seigel (Ph. D. NYU, 2001) is an assistant professor at California State University, Los Angeles. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled Trading Races: Transnational Conversations and the Construction of Race in the U.S. and Brazil after World War I, to be published by Duke University Press.

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Sophie Cahn Axman

Sophie Cahn Axman became known for her work as a probation officer helping troubled children. In 1904 found her calling as a probation officer for Jewish boys housed at the Manhattan House of Corrections.

Helen Goldmark Adler

Helen Goldmark Adler is remembered for her philanthropic achievements and her marriage to Felix Adler, philosopher and founder of the Ethical Culture Movement. In turn-of-the-century New York, Adler penned articles, established a free kindergarten for children with working-class parents, and founded an organization focused on the science of child-rearing.