Cecilia Razovsky

May 4, 1891–1968

Vos Yede Froy Darf Visen Vegen Birgershaft, What Every Woman Should Know about Citizenship, by Cecilia Razovsky. New York: Department of Immigrant Aid, National Council of Jewish Women, 1926.

Institution: U.S. Library of Congress, Hebraic Section

In Brief

Cecilia Razovsky found countless ways to help Jewish refugees, from writing plays and pamphlets that changed public opinion to running numerous committees and organizations for immigrant aid. She began working on immigration issues for the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) and was an official delegate at the International Conference for the Protection of Migrants in Geneva. She later served in leadership roles for the National Coordinating Committee for Aid to Refugees and Immigrants from Germany, the German-Jewish Children’s Aid, and the General Committee of Immigrant Aid at Ellis Island and New York Harbor. Throughout her career, Razovsky published studies on Jewish refugees in North and South America, edited NCJW’s periodical The Immigrant, and wrote articles, plays and pamphlets that shaped American opinions of immigrants.

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