On Wednesday, June 10 South Jersey NOW-Alice Paul Chapter, is honored to have as our guest speaker Dr. Melissa Klapper, professor of Rowan University. The Program will be preceded by a discussion of chapter activities. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. and is held at the First Baptist Church, 19 West Main Street in Moorestown. Enter via the side door closest to municipal parking lot and Carl’s Shoe Store.
“Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism from 1890–1940,” written by Klapper, won the 2013 National Jewish Book Award. It paints a vivid picture of middle-class and working-class American Jewish women who consistently and publicly engaged in all the major issues of their day and worked closely with their non-Jewish counterparts on behalf of activist causes including suffrage, birth control and peace.
This book reveals how American Jewish women, many unrecognized until now, used their religion and cultural heritage to inform and inspire their identity as women “struggling to become citizens and political actors in the United States.”
Klapper, professor of American and women’s history at Rowan University in Glassboro, will be discussing her new ground-breaking book. Klapper earned her B.A. from Goucher College, her PhD from Rutgers University and teaches in Rowan’s history department’s Women and Gender Studies program, which offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender.
For more information or directions please contact Anita M. Sopenoff at [email protected].
