Ten Jewish American Women in the National Women's Hall of Fame

1 - Who was the famed nineteenth century women’s rights orator, known as Queen of the Platform, who worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Paulina Wright Davis to secure the New York State women’s property legislation?

2 - Who was the philanthropist who pioneered what became the United Way model of community fund raising and founded the National Jewish Hospital for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine?

3 - Who founded the Henry Street Settlement and coined the term “public health nursing”?

4 – Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine?

5 – Who is the internationally renowned opera star who went on to become president of the New York City Opera and then chair of Lincoln Center?

6 – Who was the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange?

7 – Who founded the National Council of Jewish Women?

8 – Who introduced the legislation that established Women’s Equality Day?

9 - Who pioneered the techniques that led to drugs to combat leukemia, herpes, transplant rejection, and AZT?

10 - Who said, “If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?”


Answers
1 - Ernestine Rose
2 - Frances Wisebart Jacobs
3 - Lillian Wald
4 - Rosalyn Yalow
5 - Beverly Sills
6 - Muriel Siebert
7 - Hannah Greenbaum Solomon
8 - Bella Abzug
9 - Gertrude Belle Elion
10 - Gloria Steinem

Biographies of all these women are available on the National Women's Hall of Fame web site www.greatwomen.org
Just enter the main page and key the name into the search box.

Note supplied by Sonia Pressman Fuentes: These are women who were or are Jewish or so identified themselves.

This quiz was compiled by Billie Luisi-Potts, the director of the National Women's Hall of Fame, who is Jewish. This it is not a comprehensive list of the Jewish women in the Hall.