Dora Askowith

Dora Askowith (August 30, 1884 - October 23, 1958) was a Lithuanian-born American college professor, author and historian. She was director of the Women’s Organization for the American Jewish Congress.

Life[]

She was born in Kovno. She graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University. From 1912 to 1957, she taught at Hunter College.^[1]

Works[]

• The toleration and persecution of the Jews in the Roman empire: Part I: The Toleration of the Jews Under Julius Caesar and Augustus (1915)
• A Call to the Jewish Women of America (c. 1917)
• “Prolegomena: Legal Fictions or Evasions of the Law” in Jewish Studies in Memory of Israel Abrahams (1927)
• "The Life and Work of Luigi Luzzatti" in God in Freedom: Studies in the Relations Between Church and State (1930)
• Three outstanding women, Mary Fels, Rebekah Kohut [and] Annie Nathan Meyer(1941)
• The purchase of Louisiana (1953)

References[]

External links[]

• Jenna Weissman Joselit, A Tale of Two Flags, Confederate and Zionist, Forward, August 8, 2015

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