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suffrage. Most Jewish newspapers endorsed the
cause and published articles promoting it. Prior
to 1920, women were rarely allowed to speak from
synagogue pulpits, but some rabbis made an excep-
tion for suffragists and invited them to address their
congregations. Nina Morais Cohen, the daughter of Rabbi
Sabbato Morais of Philadelphia’s Congregation
Mikveh Israel, rose to prominence as a suffragist
writer during the 19th century. She published “The
Limitations of Sex,” a blistering rebuttal of a claim
that women’s small brains rendered them intellec-
tually inferior to men and therefore unfit to partic-
ipate in public life, in the North American Review
in 1881. She placed an article entitled “Jewish
Ostracism in America,” which addressed anti-Sem-
itism, in the same magazine nine months later.

She was active in the Minnesota Women’s
Suffrage Association when she moved to
Minneapolis later in life and even hosted Susan B.

Anthony in her home when the National American
Woman Suffrage Association held a meeting in the
Twin Cities.

Pamela Nadell, professor of history at American
University and author of “America’s Jewish Women:
History from Colonial Times to Today,” said
Cohen’s contributions to the suffrage movement
have been overlooked by scholars.

“The ‘Jewish Ostracism’ essay has periodically
been cited by academics, but it was like she was just
lost,” she said.

Although women’s suffrage received support
from many Jewish women and the Jewish commu-
nity in general, organizations like Hadassah and the
National Council of American Jewish Women did



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