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Fanny Brin

Who

Fanny Brin · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

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.

When

1884, Berlad, Romania — 1961, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Where

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Biography

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.

How & why

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

Contributions & Sources

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

Source: Jewish Women's Archive; Wikipedia