Great Jewish Women - Hardcover

Elinor Slater; Robert Slater

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824603702 ISBN 13: 9780824603700

Publisher: Jonathan David Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

This 2015 edition includes profiles of more than one hundred Jewish women who have had a great impact in their respective fields of endeavor, including Golda Meir, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barbra Streisand, and U.S. senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. Their unusual achievements are interestingly presented and their relationships to Judaism highlighted. With black-and-white photographs.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Slater and his wife, Elinor Slater, are coauthors of the highly popular Great Jewish Women and Great Jewish Men.

Robert Slater was a reporter in the Time magazine Jerusalem Bureau from 1976 to 1996. He is also the author of Great Jews in Sports, Rabin of Israel, and Golda: The Uncrowned Queen of Israel. Elinor Slater has worked for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as the coordinator for U.S.-sponsored research programs since 1982. She has helped in the editing of all her husband's books and is active in the Israel Women's Network.

Elinor Slater, born in the United States in 1944, and Robert Slater, born in the United States in 1943, have been married since 1966. In 1971 they moved to Jerusalem, where they continue to make their home. The Slaters have three children, all of whom live in Israel.

Review:

"The perfect Bat Mitzvah gift." --The Jewish Press

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan David Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0824603702
• ISBN 13: 9780824603700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368