"'Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir' by Shulamit Reinharz is a blessing. Instead of being overwhelmed with the feeling of powerlessness, reading this book gave me so much personal power because it’s all about survival and resistance." —Review by Shoshana McKinney Kirya-Ziraba: buff.ly/2WYkC5B

Fall Book Talks are hereeee! Join us Thursdays, Sep 17 - Oct 1, at 8 PM with our upcoming authors: 🔹 Sep 17: Daniela Gerson, The Wanderers 🔹Sep 24: Gabrielle Sher, Odessa 🔹Oct 1: Portia Elan, Homebound Register at jwa.org/events.

Happy birthday to the mononymous painter Gluck, born on this day in 1895. Gluck earned critical acclaim in the 1920s-30s for an individualist style and eclectic subject matter, rejecting constraints of a conservative upbringing and refusing public association with any movement. buff.ly/z22phmP

Photograph of Jews hiding in the forest after escaping ghettos and concentration camps. Near Lenin, Poland, 1943. Image by Faye Schulman. Schulman devoted her life to ensuring that the world understood that Jews resisted Nazis, challenging misconceptions about passivity: buff.ly/SBOTRbK

Remembering gender-bending actress Adah Isaacs Menken (June 15 1835–August 10 1868) 🕯️ Menken achieved fame for her starring role in Mazeppa, where she played a role written for a man. In her short but remarkable life, she was legendary for her defiance of convention. buff.ly/MvQuW8e

Before there was Elmo, there was Lamb Chop. Shari Lewis was a beloved ventriloquist, writer, and television pioneer who redefined children's entertainment. We remember her on her yahrzeit this week 🕯️ buff.ly/7gJ8IM4

Nita and Zita (aka the Gellert Sisters) rose to stardom in the 1920s before becoming legendary New Orleans eccentrics. Their lives challenge Jewish and gender norms while illuminating a rarely told chapter of American history: the world of burlesque dancers and outsider artists: buff.ly/0oO9pog

"Pregnancy and birth helped me reconnect with my creativity, and I experienced a lot of healing through my own artmaking and interactions with Jewish art and ritual." Lucy Marshall is the creator of Me’ugelet, a new Jewish journal about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum: buff.ly/C3egwiF

We're in the thick of summer, so we're talking about (what else?) camp! In this special summer episode of our podcast, we speak with Shai Korman about The Floaters, a new movie set at a Jewish summer camp, and how the film fit—or didn't—with their camp experiences. Listen: buff.ly/6ZW2D65

Happy birthday Theda Bara, goth queen of my dreams. Bara was an icon of sensuality and the exotic during the silent film era. Between 1915 and 1919, she starred in over forty films. Read more: buff.ly/dipsieJ

“I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a photographer. I have pictures. I have proof.”—Faye Schulman Few individuals left behind such powerful visual evidence of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust as Faye Schulman: buff.ly/5WCyEBT

We're hiring 💙 The Chief Development Officer plays a core role in JWA’s success, leading our development efforts. Salary: $130-150k. Boston / NYC preferred, open to remote applications. Full posting: buff.ly/cWWV8o6

As we celebrate USA at 250, we honor Jewish women who shaped policy: 🔹 Bella Abzug: fought to pass Equal Rights Amendment 🔹 Ernestine Rose: central to women’s rights & anti-slavery 🔹 Elizabeth Glaser: created Pediatric AIDS Foundation 🔹 Rita Schwerner Bender: turned tragedy to civil rights advocacy

Isabelle Choko learned to play chess in the Lodz Ghetto. She was deported to Auschwitz, then Bergen-Belsen. Following liberation, she resettled in France. She went on to win the French Women’s Chess Championship in 1956. Thinking of her on National Chess Day. buff.ly/JgYBGhk

Postcard labeled “Yemenite Artistic Plaiting,” Tel Aviv, c. 1960s–1980s. #NewToTheArchives 📷 Gross Family Collection (GFC)

Else Berg was an Eastern European-born Jewish modernist artist. Berg resisted a fixed artistic identity, drawing on her travel, spirituality, and expressive color to shape her work. Long overlooked, her work has since been rediscovered. Read more in our new encyclopedia article: buff.ly/lMowG9c

Rabbi Tsipora Gabai is the first Moroccan woman to date to be ordained as a rabbi in 2003. Read more in our new encyclopedia entry: buff.ly/t5UowAg

Mascha Kaléko’s writing explores life in pre-war Germany. It deals with social injustice and the working class. After her poems were banned by the Nazis, they were hand-copied and circulated in secret. buff.ly/lShfi1O

Mah Jongg in the pool sounds like the ideal way to spend this holiday weekend. Long played in China, Mah Jongg fever struck America in the 20s. The general population lost interest during the Great Depression, but Jewish women have held on to the game for nearly a century. 📷 Library of Congress

DEADLINE APPROACHING: JWA's Pomegranate Writing Fellowship, a program for Jewish women of color and racially and ethnically diverse Jewish women, is now accepting applications for 2026. Apply by July 12: buff.ly/Apu3FeX

Thinking of dancer Yardena Cohen on her birthday today. Cohen, born in 1910 in Palestine, rejected the style of her European dance teachers, instead incorporating Sephardic music and biblical themes into her dances. 📷 Yardena Cohen dances her solo “The Mourner” (1937). buff.ly/xlPzYj5

As Pride Month wraps up, we're highlighting Roza Van Gelderen and Hilda Purwitsky, a rare example of an openly same-sex couple in Cape Town’s conservative Jewish community in the 1920s: buff.ly/ilW51Ty

Eva Kotchever founded Eve’s Hangout, one of Greenwich Village’s earliest lesbian spaces, and published "Lesbian Love" when queer lives were pushed to the margins. Arrested, deported, and murdered at Auschwitz, her story is a reminder that Pride is built on generations of courage. buff.ly/mBjioFa

IKYMI: JWA's Pomegranate Writing Fellowship, a program for Jewish women of color and racially and ethnically diverse Jewish women, is now accepting applications for 2026! More info: buff.ly/7WKqnGZ

Blessing your feed with this photo of Anouk Aimée today. You're welcome. Aimée is known for her remarkable presence as an icon of cool, sophisticated beauty in more than seventy films across seven decades. She died on this day in 2024. buff.ly/HqjHAt3 📷 Anouk Aimée in Lola (1961)

On June 21, photographer Hannah Altman will open her exhibition "Ground Glass," which honors the life Holocaust victim Lore Sternfeld (1915-1943), a camera lens engineer for Astro-Berlin, whose lenses were used by Nazi propagandists. JWA sat down with Altman to discuss this work: buff.ly/w8DmQzn

"ICE, has increasingly targeted Latin American immigrants. Similar prejudice has also been a defining aspect in Jewish immigration stories." —The Parallel Histories of Latin American and Jewish Immigrants by Meital Cohen-Margolius for JWA: buff.ly/QZuQgAZ

JWA is thrilled to announce that the 2026 Pomegranate Writing Fellowship, a paid program for Jewish women of color and racially and ethnically diverse Jewish women. Applications for our second cohort are officially open! Apply by July 12: buff.ly/dxI0G4i

Postcard depicting women from Oujda, Morocco, 1909. #NewToTheArchives 📷 Wikimedia Commons buff.ly/gAgAxhV

Quick, before you read further - look at this sweet face and guess her career. . . Did you say radical sex therapist? Ruth Westheimer, known as Dr. Ruth, was a sex therapist and host of the Sexually Speaking talk show, which ran from 1980-1990. She was born on this day in 1928. buff.ly/dBvykUt