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Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

Co-founder of Ms. magazine and the National Women's Political Caucus, and a founder of Jewish feminism who wrote on gender equality and family.

When

1939, Queens, New York, USA

Where

New York City

Founded
Ms.Ms.1971
Biography

Letty Cottin Pogrebin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Co-founder of Ms. magazine and the National Women's Political Caucus, and a founder of Jewish feminism who wrote on gender equality and family.

How & why

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, raised in a Jewish family in New York, is a writer, activist and co-founder of Ms. magazine and the National Women's Political Caucus. A founder of the Jewish feminist movement, she has written extensively on gender equality, family life and the place of women in Jewish tradition. Her work bridges American feminism and Jewish identity.

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Source: Jewish Women's Archive; Wikipedia

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Co-founder of Ms. magazine and the National Women's Political Caucus, and a founder of Jewish feminism who wrote on gender equality and family.

1939

Source: Jewish Women's Archive; Wikipedia