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Meyera Oberndorf

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Meyera Oberndorf · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

Meyera Oberndorf blazed trails in Virginia politics as the first woman and first Jewish mayor of Virginia Beach, the largest city in the Commonwealth.

When

10 February 1941

Biography

Meyera Oberndorf is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Meyera Oberndorf blazed trails in Virginia politics as the first woman and first Jewish mayor of Virginia Beach, the largest city in the Commonwealth.

How & why

Meyera Oberndorf blazed trails in Virginia politics as the first woman and first Jewish mayor of Virginia Beach, the largest city in the Commonwealth. 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 Marty Kelso, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Marty Kelso

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Meyera Oberndorf blazed trails in Virginia politics as the first woman and first Jewish mayor of Virginia Beach, the largest city in the Commonwealth.

1941

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Marty Kelso