Edith Altschul Lehman
Edith Altschul Lehman · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Known to many as the cultured wife of one of New York’s most popular governors and senators, Edith Altschul Lehman was in her own right a passionate social activist and philanthropist.
8 August 1889
Edith Altschul Lehman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Known to many as the cultured wife of one of New York’s most popular governors and senators, Edith Altschul Lehman was in her own right a passionate social activist and philanthropist.
Known to many as the cultured wife of one of New York’s most popular governors and senators, Edith Altschul Lehman was in her own right a passionate social activist and philanthropist. 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 Norma Spungen, and the entry is linked below.
Verify and go deeper with these external references.
Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Norma Spungen
This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.
Known to many as the cultured wife of one of New York’s most popular governors and senators, Edith Altschul Lehman was in her own right a passionate social activist and philanthropist.
Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Norma Spungen
Similar Contributors
Etta Lasker Rosensohn
Rhoda Kaufman
Rita Arditti
Adele Lewisohn Lehman
