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Dora Askowith

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Dora Askowith (August 30, 1884 - October 23, 1958) was a Lithuanian-born American college professor, author and historian. She was director of the Women’s Organization for the American Jewish Congress.

Article by Dora Askowith (Buffalo Jewish Review, 5 Mar 1926, p.3)

Life

Askowith received her primary education at Winthrop School, in Roxbury, Boston and attended high school at Girls' High School.[1] She was born in Kovno. She graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University. From 1912 to 1957, she taught at Hunter College.[2]

For a short period in the 1920s, Askowith studied at Rabbinical school, although ordination was denied to female students.[3]

In 1891, her father, Jacob Baruch, and brother, Charles, designed one of the early versions of the Flag of Israel.[4][5]

Publications

Books

  • The Toleration of the Jews in the Roman Empire. Part I. The Toleration of the Jews Under Julius Caesar and Augustus (1915) — Published by Columbia University
  • Three Outstanding Women: Mary Fels, Rebekah Kohut, Annie Nathan Meyer (1941)

Book chapters

  • Askowith, D. (1927). “Prolegomena: Legal Fictions or Evasions of the Law.” In Jewish Studies in Memory of Israel Abrahams. New York: Jewish Institute of Religion.
  • Askowith, D. (1930). “The Life and Work of Luigi Luzzatti.” In Luzzatti, L. (Ed.) God in Freedom: Studies in the Relations Between Church and State. New York: Macmillan.

Journal articles

  • Askowith, D. (1944). The first Zionist flag. Jewish Social Studies, 55-57.
  • Askowith, D. (1947). Ezekiel and St. Augustine: A comparative study. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 15(4), 224-227.
  • Askowith, D. (1956). The role of women in the field of higher Jewish education. Judaism, 5(2), 169.

Other

  • A Call to the Jewish Women of America (c. 1917) (pamphlet)
  • The purchase of Louisiana (1953) (unknown)

References

  1. [1]
    "Young Roxbury woman awarded PhD degree". The Boston Globe. Saturday, June 05, 1915. Page 7.
  2. [2]
    "Dora Askowith". jwa.org. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  3. [3]
    Nadell, P. S. (2003). American Jewish Women's History: A Reader. pp. 177-181.
  4. [4]
    Reznikoff, Charles (May 1953). "From the American Scene: Boston's Jewish Community: Earlier Days". Commentary. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  5. [5]
    "New State of Israel flag was designed in Boston". The Boston Globe. 18 May 1948, Tue · Pages 1-2.


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