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Ruth Abrams

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Ruth Abrams

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Jewish Experience at Harvard

In this oral history interview, the Honorable Ruth Abrams reflects on her family’s Russian Jewish immigrant roots in Boston, her education in Newton and at Radcliffe and Harvard Law School, and her trailblazing legal career from assistant district attorney to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court while discussing gender discrimination in the legal profession, Jewish identity, civic life, and social change in twentieth-century Massachusetts.

https://qa.jwa.org/oralhistories/abrams-ruth-0
Ruth Abrams, 2001

Ruth Abrams

Project
Women Who Dared

Judith Rosenbaum interviewed Judge Ruth Abrams on July 25, 2001, in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of the Women Who Dared Oral History Project. Judge Abrams explores her family, education, career path, focus on gender issues, and notable legal cases in an interview.

https://qa.jwa.org/oralhistories/abrams-ruth
Ruth Abrams, 2001

Ruth Abrams

The first woman to serve on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Ruth Abrams upheld the rights of women and minorities throughout her career.

https://qa.jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/abrams-ruth

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