Bertha Hirsch Baruch
Bertha Hirsch Baruch was a German-born American writer, social worker, and suffragist.
Baruch was born in the Province of Posen, Germany. She immigrated to New London, Connecticut, United States, with her father in 1876.[1] Baruch wrote poetry as an adolescent and had been encouraged by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop in her literary efforts.[1] Active in College Settlement and university extension work, she attended Pennsylvania University and Yale.[1] She later worked on the editorial staff for the Los Angeles Times.[1] In 1906 she lived at 1168 W. 36th St., Los Angeles, California.[1]
Baruch was active in the women's suffrage movement. She became the county president of the Los Angeles Suffrage Association in 1905 when two conventions were hosted:
- the Women's Parliament, October 10–11, and
- the county convention of the Equal Suffrage League October 12.[2]
In 1908 Baruch became the treasurer of the Los Angeles Jewish Women's Foreign Relief Association. She started a branch of the Optimist Club in Los Angeles and was the third woman to hold office in the organization.[3] Baruch was also the founder of the Los Angeles branch of the National Council of Jewish Women.[4]
She published Dress as a Social Factor in 1912.[5]
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- Knoles, Tully C. "What Is Nationality?" Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California 10, no. 3 (1917): 5–12. Accessed March 22, 2020. doi:10.2307/41168739.
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- American women poets
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- Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States
- Writers from Los Angeles
- Writers from Poznań
- German people of Jewish descent
- American people of German-Jewish descent
- German writers
- German suffragists
- Jewish suffragists
- American women human rights activists