#jewish women in history

[fancykraken]

New ink! I'm in love with how this turned out. The artist, _via_saru (IG), has such a unique style and mad skills that I had to take the plunge since he's only in Vancouver for a month. I asked for Hedy Lamarr from Zigfield Girl. You may know her from her movie career, but she was also a prolific inventor. In an effort to help the WWII effort, she and George Antheil invented the technology that is the basis behind modern day wifi, Bluetooth, and GPS. 💖

[adiradirim]

Sephardi & Romaniote Jewish Women's Clothing in the Byzantine and Ottoman Periods, illustrated by Nikos Stavroulakis

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

I’m was watching a video about a Jewish custom, and the entire comment section was like this

It’s about anti Zionism my ass.

This is the case whenever a post has Hebrew/ Jewish symbols/ etc. it’s obviously not about Israel.

[mysharona1987]

This is literally proving the point that it is genocide.

Hitler said the same thing about Jewish people.

“You aren’t human, so it doesn’t really count.”

[nesyanast]

On November 23, 1909, more than twenty thousand Jewish Yiddish-speaking immigrants, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an eleven-week general strike in New York’s shirtwaist industry. Dubbed the Uprising of the 20,000, it was the largest strike by women to date in American history. The young strikers’ courage, tenacity, and solidarity forced the predominantly male leadership in the “needle trades” and the American Federation of Labor to revise their entrenched prejudices against organizing women. The strikers won only a portion of their demands, but the uprising sparked five years of revolt that transformed the garment industry into one of the best-organized trades in the United States.

[cavalierzee]

Israel's Genocide Of Palestinians

“Those who suffered the Holocaust do not want to be involved in anyone else’s genocide”.

A Jewish Holocaust survivor making the Jewish people proud again in the face of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.

Yanis Varoufakis

[cozy-lake]

I’m thinking of ALL women this women’s history month.

Palestinian women

Transgender women

Women of color

Disabled women

Queer women

Indigenous women

Jewish women

Asexual and aromantic women

EVERY woman deserves to be uplifted and celebrated this month and every month.

[throughtheages]

Jewish (Sephardic) couple from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1910.

The first Jews came to Sarajevo, later called "Little Jerusalem", from the Iberian Peninsula in the early 16th century, bringing with them the Ladino language and Sephardi customs. A prosperous Jewish quarter with a synagogue was erected in 1577 under the pasha Siavush. Known to the Bosnians as tchifut-khan, the Jews themselves called it El Cortijo (the communal yard). Making up more than 20% of Sarajevo' total population, they maintained excellent relations with their Bosnian Christian and Muslim neighbors and held renowned positions as merchants, weavers, tailors, blacksmiths and hatchims (from the Arabic-Turkish Hakīm, "doctor"). With the Holocaust, this rich Jewish life and history tragically came to an end.

[lesbianarthistory]

Gertrude Sandmann – Pink Nightgown and Black Pyjamas (1928)

[queenfredegund]

Women in History Month (insp) | Week 2: Royal Mothers

[cotidianoseeder]

If I was you, Americans, I would take advantage that it is just the begging of government and start to save some media, like, fucking now

I am Brazilian, and if I was you, I would start to save in a pen drive or buy physical copies of things considered "leftist". Trump is crazy, a complete megalomaniac, and we already saw the first laws about trans people in the first day, so I will say it again:

Download or buy physical copies of things that can be considered "leftist".

It doesn't matter if it is a punk song, a movie explaining about poc history, your cute lgbt romance, or an informative books and articles in favor of lgbt people. Just download or buy it! It will variate from person to person. Some will prefer to save their favorite songs about revolution, others will prefer to have books about environment, some may like books like the Communism Manifest, others will save their cute gay movie, but just do it.

Things about the environment and climate change, history about poc people, history about women right and feminism, holocaust, books against nazis, about sex education, etc.

If you can do it, do it now. This man is a megalomaniac, and he looks that will do everything to erase us, and other important causes. So please, let's do it. There are so good contents, that you want to read someday, that will comfort you, teach things to you, but if he prohibits it, you and a lot of people who needs will not have. In the worst scenario, books, movies, series, and songs that helped us so much will disappear, may turn lost media to a good part of the population. They want to rewrite history, taking the true out of our hands.

I would also say to you use a VPN, and for folks in the whole world, remembers: USA is like an old brother, everything good or bad that it does, the world usually follows. I pray that it doesn't happy, but also in the worst case, the world will go to the same vibes as the USA.

Sorry if it sounded alarmist, but it is better safe than sorry, and I believe that it might happen. They banned Anne Frank and others books from school in Florida.

Sorry for the English. Repost it and share it, if you can, when more people see it, and save media. When people see it earlier, more media will be saved, and you won't lose things that you liked.

So many books are helping me when I am depressed, and I believe that I am sinning (in my case is open christians books in favor of lgbt people helps me a lot), and they might be banned, as many others books. I want people having a harder time have the songs to listen, the books to read, and the movies to watch, so please, save media.

Again, sorry if it sounded alarmist, but 'better safe than sorry', and this guy looks so crazy. I really don't know if any American started to think that it may happen.

Also, safe articles in favor of lgbt and others minorities!

[adiradirim]

From right to left: Beya Melamed; Bulgaria, 1890 - Jewish bride after the wedding; Turkey, early 20th century - Torah ark curtain made from a woman’s dress; Izmir, Turkey, 1929 - Wedding dress belonging to a Jewish family from Edirne, Turkey; early 20th century, gifted to museum exhibition in memory of Colombe Papo

Worn in the 19th and 20th century for weddings and other occasions by women across the Balkans and Anatolia, bindallı dresses were typically made of velvet in deep jewel tones. They were decorated with extensive gold embroidery of floral designs, which give this group of dresses their name, meaning thousand branches. This Ottoman-derived yet European-influenced style marked a transitional period between uses of traditional and modern western fashions.

The dresses - adopted from the surrounding culture as a fashionable item without any Jewish specificity - took on unique Jewish meaning through their use in the synagogue, where they became ark curtains, Torah mantles and binders, bimah covers, and the like, frequently with added dedicatory inscription. The donation of dresses and trousseau items by women to the synagogues created a personal bond between the women and the synagogue. The habit of donating these textiles to the synagogue endured long after the original embroidered bedclothes and dresses had gone out of fashion, and the transitional bindallı fashion thus remained alive in Sephardi synagogues long after the passing of the brides who wore the dresses.

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Tel Aviv last night

Following the devastating news of the murder of 6 hostages, us Israelis are striking and protesting for a deal.

Saying we don’t want a ceasefire deal is just wrong. There are protests nationwide, school and most businesses are closed in protest.

We want a ceasefire / hostages deal . Bring them home now❤️🎗️

[cottoncandytrafficcones]

I love you JWA. Thank you for providing history for Jewish women when there often is none.

[bobemajses]

Portrait of Asenath Barzani (1590-1670), a Jewish religious leader and poet in Ottoman Kurdistan

Asenath Barzani is considered the first female rabbi by some historians; additionally, she is the oldest recorded female Kurdish leader. After the death of her father, a great kabbalist, she lead the Mosul yeshiva, which produced many renowned scholars. Thus, she became the leader of the Jewish community in Mosul and all Iraqi Kurdistan. Barzani's writings are infused with deep mystical thinking and demonstrate a mastery of different languages. There are numerous stories about her, most of which have been found in amulets, which allude to her supernatural powers and miracles. After her death, many Jews made pilgrimages to her grave in Amadiyah in northern Iraq. Subsequently, Barzani was and still is an essential subject of Kurdish-Jewish pride and folklore.

[nesyanast]

Lemlich was a Ukranian Jewish immigrant who emigrated to New York in 1903. She became a garment worker and joined the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. She was a key leader in the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of New York garment workers in 1909. Blacklisted from the industry for her union work, she was active in the women’s suffrage movement. She joined was a leader of the United Council of Working Class Women. A life long activist, in her last years as a nursing home resident, Lemlich persuaded the nursing home to join in the United Farm Workers' boycotts of grapes and lettuce and helped the workers there to organize.