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Gertrude Weil

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Gertrude Weil · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

A dedicated activist for women’s rights and racial equality, Gertrude Weil showed that local, small-scale political action could have far-reaching effects.

When

11 December 1879

Biography

Gertrude Weil is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — A dedicated activist for women’s rights and racial equality, Gertrude Weil showed that local, small-scale political action could have far-reaching effects.

How & why

A dedicated activist for women’s rights and racial equality, Gertrude Weil showed that local, small-scale political action could have far-reaching effects. 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 Heather Geisberg Pennington, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Heather Geisberg Pennington

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A dedicated activist for women’s rights and racial equality, Gertrude Weil showed that local, small-scale political action could have far-reaching effects.

1879

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Heather Geisberg Pennington