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Hannah Floretta Cohen

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Hannah Floretta Cohen · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

Hannah Floretta Cohen was the first woman president of Britain’s traditionally male Jewish Board of Guardians for Jewish Poor Relief.

When

25 May 1875

Biography

Hannah Floretta Cohen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Hannah Floretta Cohen was the first woman president of Britain’s traditionally male Jewish Board of Guardians for Jewish Poor Relief.

How & why

Hannah Floretta Cohen was the first woman president of Britain’s traditionally male Jewish Board of Guardians for Jewish Poor Relief. 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 Michele Klein, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Michele Klein

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Hannah Floretta Cohen was the first woman president of Britain’s traditionally male Jewish Board of Guardians for Jewish Poor Relief.

1875

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Michele Klein