Jewish women

Sarah Schenirer 1883–1935 Kraków seamstress who founded Bais Yaakov in 1917 and built girls' Torah education into a movement. Jewish Women's Archive ↗ Nechama Leibowitz 1905–1997 Taught Tanach to a generation by post, sending out and marking gilyonot for decades before her lessons filled halls. Jewish Women's Archive ↗ Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka 1901–1988 Wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; the Chabad women's and girls' organisations carry her name. Wikipedia ↗ Rebbetzin Chana 1880–1964 Followed her husband into Soviet exile and made ink from herbs so he could keep writing. Wikipedia ↗ Bruriah 2nd century The one woman whose halachic opinions are cited by name in the Talmud. Wikipedia ↗ Glückel of Hameln 1646–1724 Her Yiddish memoir is the earliest known autobiography by a Jewish woman. Jewish Women's Archive ↗ Doña Gracia Nasi 1510–1569 Ran a shipping fortune and an escape network that carried conversos out of the Inquisition. Jewish Women's Archive ↗ Henrietta Szold 1860–1945 Founded Hadassah in 1912, then Youth Aliyah, which brought thousands of children out of Europe. Jewish Women's Archive ↗ Hannah Szenes 1921–1944 Poet who parachuted into occupied Europe in 1944 to reach Hungarian Jewry, and was executed at 23. Jewish Women's Archive ↗ Rosalind Franklin 1920–1958 Her X-ray crystallography produced the image that revealed the structure of DNA. Wikipedia ↗ Emmy Noether 1882–1935 Noether's theorem tied every conservation law in physics to a symmetry. Wikipedia ↗ Gertrude Elion 1918–1999 Nobel in Medicine, 1988, for drugs designed from the biology up rather than found by trial. Wikipedia ↗