Lily Edelman
Lily Edelman made great contributions to multiculturalism and Jewish education through her writing and teaching. Edelman earned an MA from Columbia in 1938, the same year she published her first book, Mexican Mural Painters and Their Influence in the United States. Her passion for multiculturalism led to her work as education director of the East & West Association from 1941 to 1950. She published a number of children’s books throughout the 1950s but her main work in this period was with adult education. She served as executive secretary for the National Academy for Adult Jewish Studies in 1953. She joined B’nai B’rith in 1957, where she served variously as director of adult education, national program director, and director of the lecture bureau.
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