THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Rosetta Reitz
September 28, 1924 – November 1, 2008
Record producer, historian, author, educator. New York Radical Feminists. A founding member of OWL (Older Women’s Liberation). Founder of the Four Seasons Bookstore in Greenwich Village. Honored by The Veteran Feminists of America, Salute to Feminist Writers in 2002.
Photo 1. Rosetta at the University of Wisconsin, 1943. Photo 2. Rosetta in 1980. Photo 3. Dutch Street rededicated to Rosetta Reitz, May 2020.
More About Rosetta:
- The Rosetta Reitz Tribute website, created by her daughter Rebecca.
- Rosetta Records, founded in 1980
- Selected articles
- Books
- The Liberation of the Yiddisha Mama, The Village Voice, February 11, 1971. This reprint was made to be given away free, along with other papers, at the MOTHERHOOD Conference (exploring the politics of) sponsored by The New York Radical Feminists at P.S. 41, May 19, 1974.
- Rosetta Reitz Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Book – Feminists Who Changed America – page 380
- Wikipedia