Ruth R. Dresner Collection 1912-1993

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Ruth R. Dresner Collection 1912-1993

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The Ruth R. Dresner Collection comprises research material and writings about the well-known Jewish social workerBertha Pappenheim. It includes copies of articles, offprints and clippings on her in addition to a dissertation on her work and some correspondence concerning the accumulation ofresearch on her life and work. Material on the German stamp issued in her honor and some photographs are also present.

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Pappenheim, Bertha, 1859-1936

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Bertha Pappenheim was born in Vienna in 1859 into a well-to-do family. After her father’s death in 1881 Bertha Pappenheim got ill and became a patient of Sigmund Freud, who later referred to her in his writings as Anna O. Politically active as a Jewish woman, Bertha von Pappenheim founded the Jewish Women's Association (Jüdischer Frauenbund) in 1905. She also founded a home for unwanted girls, unmarried mothers and their children in Neu Isenburg in 1907. Bertha Pappenheim fought against internat...

Jüdischer Frauenbund

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Dresner, Ruth R.

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Ruth Rapp Dresner is a social worker who studied at Fordham University. In addition to her master's dissertation on Bertha Pappenheim, Bertha Pappenheim: The Contribution of a German Jewish Pioneer Social Reformer to Social Work: 1859-1936, she has also published the article The Work of Bertha Pappenheim in Judaism: a Quarterly of Jewish Life and Thought in 1981. From the guide to the Ruth R. Dresner Collection, 1912-1993, (Leo Baeck Institute) ...