Bertha Pappenheim
Bertha Pappenheim · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Founder of the League of Jewish Women (Jüdischer Frauenbund) in Germany, a leading feminist and social worker who fought trafficking of women and championed women's rights.
1859, Vienna, Austria — 1936, Neu-Isenburg, Germany
Vienna, Austria; Frankfurt and Neu-Isenburg, Germany
Bertha Pappenheim is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Founder of the League of Jewish Women (Jüdischer Frauenbund) in Germany, a leading feminist and social worker who fought trafficking of women and championed women's rights.
Bertha Pappenheim was a German-Jewish feminist and social-work pioneer who founded the League of Jewish Women (Jüdischer Frauenbund) in 1904 and led it for two decades. She campaigned against the trafficking of women and girls, established a home for unwed mothers, and championed women's rights and welfare from within the Jewish community. She is also known to history as 'Anna O.,' the early psychoanalytic patient of Josef Breuer.
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Source: Jewish Women's Archive (jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pappenheim-bertha)
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Founder of the League of Jewish Women (Jüdischer Frauenbund) in Germany, a leading feminist and social worker who fought trafficking of women and championed women's rights.
Source: Jewish Women's Archive (jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/pappenheim-bertha)
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