Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Letty Cottin Pogrebin is an American writer and journalist. (The name Pogrebin is stressed on the first syllable: POH-grebin.) She graduated from Brandeis University
and became a writer and feminist advocate in the early 1970s. In 1971, she was one of the founding editors of Ms. Magazine
, where she worked for 17 years, and a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus
. She was also a consultant on Free to Be… You and Me
and edited Stories for Free Children.
Pogrebin is a well-known advocate for feminist, Jewish, and Jewish-feminist causes, as well as a political activist on topics such as hunger, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
, and African American
-Jewish relations. Her publications include Getting Yours: How to Make the System Work for the Working Woman; Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80s; Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America,; Three Daughters and the controversial and ground breaking, Anti-Semitism in the Women's Movement
led by Richard Goldstone
. She has criticized certain hardline Jewish leaders (what she calls the "Jews in the Israel-right-or-wrong mafia") vilifying and instigating a 'McCarthy-like' campaign against Richard Goldstone, who himself is a "proud Jew and declared Zionist".
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
and became a writer and feminist advocate in the early 1970s. In 1971, she was one of the founding editors of Ms. Magazine
Ms. magazine
Ms. is an American feminist magazine co-founded by American feminist and activist Gloria Steinem and founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin together with founding editors Patricia Carbine, Joanne Edgar, Nina Finkelstein, and Mary Peacock, that first appeared in 1971 as an insert in New York magazine...
, where she worked for 17 years, and a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus
National Women's Political Caucus
The National Women's Political Caucus is a national bipartisan grassroots organization in the United States dedicated to recruiting, training, and supporting women who seek elected and appointed offices....
. She was also a consultant on Free to Be… You and Me
Free to Be… You and Me
Free to Be… You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album and illustrated book first released in November 1972 featuring songs and stories sung or told by celebrities of the day including Alan Alda, Rosey Grier, Cicely Tyson, Carol Channing, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross...
and edited Stories for Free Children.
Pogrebin is a well-known advocate for feminist, Jewish, and Jewish-feminist causes, as well as a political activist on topics such as hunger, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...
, and African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
-Jewish relations. Her publications include Getting Yours: How to Make the System Work for the Working Woman; Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80s; Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America,; Three Daughters and the controversial and ground breaking, Anti-Semitism in the Women's Movement
Israel
Pogrebin has written in favour of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza ConflictUnited Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, known as the Goldstone Report, was a team established in April 2009 by the United Nations Human Rights Council during the Gaza War as an independent international fact-finding mission to investigate alleged violations of international...
led by Richard Goldstone
Richard Goldstone
Richard Joseph Goldstone is a South African former judge. After working for 17 years as a commercial lawyer, he was appointed by the South African government to serve on the Transvaal Supreme Court from 1980 to 1989 and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa from 1990 to 1994...
. She has criticized certain hardline Jewish leaders (what she calls the "Jews in the Israel-right-or-wrong mafia") vilifying and instigating a 'McCarthy-like' campaign against Richard Goldstone, who himself is a "proud Jew and declared Zionist".