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Jenny Cohen, treasurer of the Jewish League for Women's Suffrage, c.1900.
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Jenny Cohen, treasurer of the Jewish League for Women's Suffrage, c.1900.
* Moving Here catalogue reference (JML) 866.1
Although mainstream politics tended to pass by the early immigrants, a number of wealthier Jewish women were actively involved in the fight for women's suffrage. The Jewish League for Women's Suffrage campaigned vigorously for the vote, and compared the discrimination against women with that against Jews.

In the words of the First Annual report of the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage, 1913-14:

The justice of the demand for Woman Suffrage should appeal most especially to the Jew, to whom the evils of disenfranchisement have been, and are still in some countries, keenly felt.
The treasurer of the Jewish League for Women's Suffrage, Jenny Cohen, was typical of the women involved in the movement, following a range of different political, welfare and cultural interests connected to the Jewish community. She supported a number of different East End clubs, and Alice Model's Day Nursery (see below), as well as being a patron of the poet Isaac Rosenberg, and writing and publishing her own poetry.

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