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Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor
Prof. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the Director of the Schulman School of Basic Jewish Studies, the Director of Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Center for the Study of Women in Judaism, and Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of numerous books and articles and specializes in topics pertaining to Gender, Jewish religious life, the Holocaust, Memory, State of Israel, and Commemoration. Among her books are Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust (1998), Never Look Back: The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain 1938–1945 (2012) and Identity, Heroism and Religion in the Lives of Contemporary Jewish Women (Peter Lang, 2013).
«My Name is Freida Sima»
Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four sons, and the birth of their only daughter right before the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929.