New Haven Museum to celebrate barrier-breaking Jewish women

The New Haven Museum is celebrating Women”™s History Month by hosting a traveling exhibit from the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford that features trailblazing Connecticut Jewish women who overcame obstacles of gender, social class, and religious identity to carve their own paths.

“Trailblazer: Connecticut Jewish Women Making History” will be on view through March 31 during regular museum hours. The exhibit consists of large panels telling the stories of 12 groundbreaking women from diverse professional and social experiences who persevered despite untold challenges:

Ӣ Zionist activist and philanthropist Rebecca Affachiner
Ӣ textile artist and printmaker Anni Albers
Ӣ retail executive Beatrice Fox Auerbach
Ӣ Rabbi Jody Cohen
Ӣ educator Annie Fisher
Ӣ novelist Miriam Karpilove
Ӣ Connecticut Supreme Court Judge Ellen Ash Peters
Ӣ labor activist Matilda Rabinowitz
Ӣ womenӪs health activist Esther Rome
Ӣ journalist and documentarian Betty Ross
Ӣ entertainer Sophie Tucker
Ӣ hospice care pioneer Florence Wald

More information on the exhibition is available on the museum”™s website.

Photo: Annie Fisher, courtesy of Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford