Jewish Women Make History

FAIN: GA-276286-20

Jewish Women's Archive (Brookline, MA 02445-7923)
Betsy More (Project Director: May 2020 to September 2024)

Retention of five staff members to expand online public programs and the processing of its oral history collection.

This project will engage people of all ages and backgrounds in the history and literary imaginings of Jewish women by expanding the online programming of the Jewish Women’s Archive and the public availability of our oral history collections. A new weekly series will alternate between the “Quarantine Book Club”—online conversations with Jewish women writers and artists on their work and the meaning of art in times of crisis—and virtual courses exploring Jewish women’s history and its lessons for our time. These virtual events will enable JWA’s global audience to encounter writers and scholars from the comfort of their own homes, providing opportunities for communal connection and inspiration in a time of isolation and distress. The project will also increase public access to JWA’s oral history collection by cataloguing, processing, and curating existing oral histories and expanding access to JWA’s Story Aperture story collecting initiative.