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Rachel Kagan (Cohen)

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Rachel Kagan (Cohen) · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

One of two women to sign the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Rachel Kagan shaped women’s rights in the new state.

When

19 February 1888

Biography

Rachel Kagan (Cohen) is recognized among Israeli contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — One of two women to sign the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Rachel Kagan shaped women’s rights in the new state.

How & why

One of two women to sign the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Rachel Kagan shaped women’s rights in the new state. 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 Wendy Zierler, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Wendy Zierler

Contributions & Sources

One of two women to sign the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Rachel Kagan shaped women’s rights in the new state.

1888

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Wendy Zierler