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Jewish Experience at Harvard

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

Eva Bitsberger

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Jewish Experience at Harvard

On June 17, 1986, as part of the Harvard Semitic Museum Oral History Project documenting the Harvard Radcliffe Jewish experience, Eva Friedman Bitsberger, Radcliffe College, Class of 1953, was interviewed about her years at Radcliffe, her Jewish identity, marriage and life in Japan and New York, experiences with feminism and antisemitism, and her later career as Director of Financial Aid at the New England Conservatory.

https://qa.jwa.org/oralhistories/bitsberger-eva

Pearl Brown

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Jewish Experience at Harvard

Pearl Brown reflects on her Jewish student life and education at Radcliffe and Harvard, describing the intellectual, social, and cultural experiences that shaped her lifelong friendships, community involvement, and enduring attachment to Cambridge and its academic environment.

https://qa.jwa.org/oralhistories/brown-pearl

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