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Rosa Mordecai

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Rosa Mordecai · Philosophy & Social Sciences

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In the 1850s, Rosa Mordecai attended the famed Sunday school that her great-aunt Rebecca Gratz had created, which was the first to offer American Jewish children an education on Jewish history and religion in English.

When

14 February 1839

Biography

Rosa Mordecai is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — In the 1850s, Rosa Mordecai attended the famed Sunday school that her great-aunt Rebecca Gratz had created, which was the first to offer American Jewish children an education on Jewish history and religion in English.

How & why

In the 1850s, Rosa Mordecai attended the famed Sunday school that her great-aunt Rebecca Gratz had created, which was the first to offer American Jewish children an education on Jewish history and religion in English. 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 Barbara Brenzel, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Barbara Brenzel

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In the 1850s, Rosa Mordecai attended the famed Sunday school that her great-aunt Rebecca Gratz had created, which was the first to offer American Jewish children an education on Jewish history and religion in English.

1839

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Barbara Brenzel