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Florence Zacks Melton

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Florence Zacks Melton · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

A philanthropist and visionary innovator and a lay leader for over fifty years, Florence Zacks Melton helped build institutions that improved the quality and broadened the scope of Jewish education throughout North America.

When

11 November 1911

Biography

Florence Zacks Melton is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — A philanthropist and visionary innovator and a lay leader for over fifty years, Florence Zacks Melton helped build institutions that improved the quality and broadened the scope of Jewish education throughout North America.

How & why

A philanthropist and visionary innovator and a lay leader for over fifty years, Florence Zacks Melton helped build institutions that improved the quality and broadened the scope of Jewish education throughout North 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 Sylvia C. Ettenberg, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Sylvia C. Ettenberg

Contributions & Sources

A philanthropist and visionary innovator and a lay leader for over fifty years, Florence Zacks Melton helped build institutions that improved the quality and broadened the scope of Jewish education throughout North America.

1911

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Sylvia C. Ettenberg