Ella Auerbach
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Ella Auerbach (January 15, 1900 in Frankfurt am Main – April 20, 1999 in New York) was one of the first female German lawyers.[1] On 20 November 1922, Auerbach passed her junior law exam and was sworn in early December 1922 as the first woman in Bad Homburg as a trainee lawyer.[2] Moving to America in 1940,[3] Auerbach became president of the Sisterhood of the New York community Habonim, was a member of the women's group of the Leo Baeck Institute for many years and was a member of the American Federation of Jews from Central Europe.
References
[edit]- ^ Dorothee von Unger. Emanzipation und Emigration. Aus dem bewegten Leben der Ella Auerbach. Aufbau, 9. Oktober 1987.
- ^ Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg. Jüdische Frauen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Lexikon zu Leben und Werk. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1993. pp. 34–35.
- ^ Center for Jewish History (1976). "Interview with Ella Auerbach".
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