Background
Weiss-Rosmarin was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the daughter of Jacob and Celestine (Mullings) Weiss.
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Weiss-Rosmarin was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the daughter of Jacob and Celestine (Mullings) Weiss.
She attended the University of Berlin from 1927-1928, and the University of Leipzig (1929), before obtaining her Doctor of Philosophy in Semitics, philosophy, and archeology in 1931 from the University of Würzburg for a thesis on ancient Arab history.
While at university, she became active in Jewish and Zionist organizations. The couple divorced in 1951. The school, which closed in 1939, was modeled on the Frankfurt Lehrhaus created by Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber, and aimed to combat what Weiss-Rosmarin saw as women"s poor access to education.
Out of the school"s newsletter grew the Jewish Spectator, which described itself as a "typical family magazine with a special appeal to women." By means of her often controversial editorials, Weiss-Rosmarin sought to influence the American-Jewish community, arguing for changes in Jewish family law, Jewish-Arab co-existence in Israel, access to a Jewish education for women, and equality for women in the synagogue and in public life.
An article Weiss-Rosmarin wrote for the Jewish Spectator in 1970, "The Unfreedom of Jewish Women," was considered by historian Paula Hyman as one of the founding influences of the Jewish feminist movement. Weiss-Rosmarin also wrote a regular column, "Letters from New York", in the London Jewish Chronicle and served as national co-chair of education for the Zionist Organization of America.
She taught at New York University and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and published books on a variety of subjects. She died of cancer in 1989.
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