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My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist in Poland by Puah Rakovsky New Year Our thinking about Jewish nameProfessional educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader Puah Rakovsky (1865 1955) was born under the Russian Empire and died in the independent country of Israel. No mere bystander to history, Rakovsky was an activist who assumed leadership roles in the public arenas of education and politics, founding the first Jewish girls school in Warsaw and a national Jewish women s organization in 1920s Poland. In her memoir Rakovsky reflects on the