Memoir, 2002.

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Memoir, 2002.

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Memoir describes Davidoff's childhood and Jewish community life in Boston, her years at Simmons and Radcliffe, her trip to Europe with her husband in 1927, life as a wife and mother in Connecticut, and her study and teaching about women's life choices and old age.

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Davidoff, Ida Fisher.

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Ida Fisher Davidoff was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1903, to Maimie Lurensky and Jacob Fisher, Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. She attended Simmons College (A.B. 1924) and Radcliffe College (A.M. 1925). She married Leo Davidoff, a neurosurgeon, in 1926; they had four children: Helen, Leonore, Frank, and Mary. The Davidoffs lived in New Canaan, Connecticut, where Ida was active in the League of Women Voters, Hadassah, and the PTA. When her children were grown, she studied family therapy at Ya...

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...