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Anna Marks Allen

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Anna Marks Allen was part of a group of Philadelphia Jewish women who established and ran the first independent Jewish charitable societies in the United States.

When

30 March 1800

Biography

Anna Marks Allen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Anna Marks Allen was part of a group of Philadelphia Jewish women who established and ran the first independent Jewish charitable societies in the United States.

How & why

Anna Marks Allen was part of a group of Philadelphia Jewish women who established and ran the first independent Jewish charitable societies in the United States. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Jay M. Eidelman, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Jay M. Eidelman

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Anna Marks Allen was part of a group of Philadelphia Jewish women who established and ran the first independent Jewish charitable societies in the United States.

1800

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Jay M. Eidelman