This Week in History

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August 31—September 6

1990

Rabbi and military chaplain Bonnie Koppell profiled

Rabbi Bonnie Koppell

August 31

1910

Birth of entertainer Kitty Carlisle Hart

Kitty Carlisle Hart, cropped

September 3

1654

"23 souls, big as well as little," arrive in North America

New Amsterdam, 1671

September 4

1893

Unprecedented Jewish Women's Congress Meets in Chicago

Hannah Solomon

September 4

2011

Jill Abramson Begins Work as First Female Executive Editor of New York Times

Jill Abramson, Alice Tully Hall, 2012

September 6

1946

Birth of Adrienne Cooper, Performer and Interpreter of Yiddish Song

Adrienne Cooper and others at KlezKanada, 2010

September 1

2012

Long-lost Poem by War Heroine Hannah Szenes is Found

Hannah Szenes in Uniform, 1944

September 2

1819

Women’s education activist and suffragist Louisa Goldsmid is born

Water color of Girton College, Cambridge

September 2

1967

Tamara Bunke, AKA Tania the Guerrillera, is killed by Bolivian Army

Tamara Bunke 1964

August 31

1950

Bukharan Jewish dancer Malika Kalontarova is born

Tajikistan stamp with Malika Kalontarova, 2020

September 2

2017

Basketball player Sue Bird Breaks All-Time WNBA Career Assists Record

September 1

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