Fanny Brin
Fanny Brin · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Peace and women's-rights leader, president of the National Council of Jewish Women, who linked women's activism to suffrage, peace, and international cooperation.
1884, Berlad, Romania — 1961, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Fanny Brin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Peace and women's-rights leader, president of the National Council of Jewish Women, who linked women's activism to suffrage, peace, and international cooperation.
Fanny Brin was a peace and women's-rights leader who came as an infant with her Romanian Jewish family to Minnesota. As national president of the National Council of Jewish Women (1932–1938) she turned the organization toward peace activism, linking women's suffrage and equality with international cooperation. She served as an adviser to the U.S. delegation at the 1945 conference that founded the United Nations.
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Source: Jewish Women's Archive; Wikipedia
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Peace and women's-rights leader, president of the National Council of Jewish Women, who linked women's activism to suffrage, peace, and international cooperation.
Source: Jewish Women's Archive; Wikipedia
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