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Rosalie Silberman Abella

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Rosalie Silberman Abella became Canada’s first Jewish woman judge and youngest ever judge in 1975 at the age of twenty-nine.

When

1 July 1946

Biography

Rosalie Silberman Abella is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Rosalie Silberman Abella became Canada’s first Jewish woman judge and youngest ever judge in 1975 at the age of twenty-nine.

How & why

Rosalie Silberman Abella became Canada’s first Jewish woman judge and youngest ever judge in 1975 at the age of twenty-nine. 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 Irving Abella, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Irving Abella

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Rosalie Silberman Abella became Canada’s first Jewish woman judge and youngest ever judge in 1975 at the age of twenty-nine.

1946

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Irving Abella