Rebecca Gratz
Rebecca Gratz · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Pioneer of American Jewish women's philanthropy and education who founded female benevolent, orphan, and Hebrew Sunday School societies, expanding women's charitable leadership.
1781, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — 1869, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rebecca Gratz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Pioneer of American Jewish women's philanthropy and education who founded female benevolent, orphan, and Hebrew Sunday School societies, expanding women's charitable leadership.
Rebecca Gratz was a pioneer of American Jewish women's philanthropy and education. A devout Jew, she founded female benevolent societies, an orphan asylum, a Jewish foster home and, in 1838, the first Hebrew Sunday School in the United States, which she superintended into her eighties. Her institution-building vastly expanded women's charitable and educational leadership in Jewish and civic life.
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Source: Jewish Women's Archive; Wikipedia
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Pioneer of American Jewish women's philanthropy and education who founded female benevolent, orphan, and Hebrew Sunday School societies, expanding women's charitable leadership.
Source: Jewish Women's Archive; Wikipedia
