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Dorothy Lehman Bernhard

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Dorothy Lehman Bernhard · Civil Rights & Human Rights

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Dorothy Lehman Bernhard made great contributions to the causes dearest to her, including child welfare, the arts, and the Jewish community, both by overseeing over 30 organizations and, more directly, by becoming a foster parent.

When

22 April 1903

Biography

Dorothy Lehman Bernhard is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Dorothy Lehman Bernhard made great contributions to the causes dearest to her, including child welfare, the arts, and the Jewish community, both by overseeing over 30 organizations and, more directly, by becoming a foster parent.

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Dorothy Lehman Bernhard made great contributions to the causes dearest to her, including child welfare, the arts, and the Jewish community, both by overseeing over 30 organizations and, more directly, by becoming a foster parent. 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 Jennifer Rosenberg, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Jennifer Rosenberg

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Dorothy Lehman Bernhard made great contributions to the causes dearest to her, including child welfare, the arts, and the Jewish community, both by overseeing over 30 organizations and, more directly, by becoming a foster parent.

1903

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Jennifer Rosenberg