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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: LETTY COTTIN POGREBINadmin2022-11-09T16:19:50-05:00

THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Sisters: Think of all the things you could do if you were born a boy – and do them anyway!” – Letty Cottin Pogrebin, 1/11/79

Author. Journalist. Activist. Editor. Publisher. Speaker. A Founding Editor of Ms. Magazine.  A  Co-Founder of the Ms. Foundation in 1972, the NWPC in 1971, the Ms. Foundation for Education and Communication, the Women’s Task Force of the UJA/Federation, the Directors Council of the Women in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School, and several dialogue groups promoting intergroup understanding between African-Americans and Jews, and between Palestinians and Jews.

Photo 1. Letty Cottin Pogrebin, circa 1972. Photo 2. Supersisters Trading Card, 1979. Photo 3. Editor of Ms. Magazine, 1985 (photo by Jim Frost). Photo 4. VFA salute to Betty Friedan, 1999.

(Photo by Mike Lovett)

More About Letty:

  • Letty Cottin Pogrebin with Gloria Steinem, introduced by Letty’s twin daughters, Abigail and Robin at Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, October 2022.
  • Jewish Broadcasting Service –  Rabbi Mark S. Golub interviews Letty 2015
  • Letty’s website
    • Letty’s Books
    • Selected Newspaper and Magazine Bylines
  • How Do You Spell Ms. – Abigail Pogrebin
  • The Jewish Women’s Archive 
    • Letty Cottin Pogrebin
    • “Making Trouble/Making History,” Gloria Steinem introduces honoree, Letty Cottin Pogrebin – video begins at 0:34
  • Makers – Letty Cottin Pogrebin 
    •  She Was Peggy Olson During An Era of “Mad Men Squared”
    •  Abortions Before Roe V. Wade
  • Salute to Feminist Writers at Barnard College, NYC – VFA event,  April 26, 2002 
    • Letty’s comments
    • Panelists Barbara Seaman, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Marlene Sanders (moderator)
  • Select Speeches and Interviews
    • A conversation with columnist, Danielle Berrin, discuss “Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate” at the American Jewish University.
    • Religion and the Feminist Movement Conference – Panel I: Letty Cottin Pogrebin June 2014
    • One to One: Letty Cottin Pogrebin, journalist, author, “How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick.” May, 2013
    • Bill Boggs interviews Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author, journalist, lecturer, and social activist, on the subject of non-sexist child-rearing. 1984
  • On C-SPAN
    • Anita Hill Testimony: 20th Anniversary Co-organized by Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Kathleen Peratis at Hunter College 2011.
    • A complete reading of the late Elie Wiesel’s Night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. 2017 (Letty begins at marker 11:36)
  • Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History – Letty Cottin Pogrebin papers
  • Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 363

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