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Carrie Obendorfer Simon

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Carrie Obendorfer Simon · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

Carrie Obendorfer Simon helped shape the Reform movement as founder of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, which quickly became the largest Jewish women’s organization in America.

When

5 March 1872

Biography

Carrie Obendorfer Simon is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Carrie Obendorfer Simon helped shape the Reform movement as founder of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, which quickly became the largest Jewish women’s organization in America.

How & why

Carrie Obendorfer Simon helped shape the Reform movement as founder of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, which quickly became the largest Jewish women’s organization in America. 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 Mark I. Greenberg, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Mark I. Greenberg

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Carrie Obendorfer Simon helped shape the Reform movement as founder of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, which quickly became the largest Jewish women’s organization in America.

1872

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Mark I. Greenberg