Hanna Weinberg - 10-June-2001 -€“ Weaving Women'€™s Words

About this film

Oral historian Jean Freedman interviewed Hanna Weinberg on June 10, 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland as part of the Jewish Womenâs Archive "Weaving Women's Words" project. The daughter of a scholar and rabbi, and the wife of a scholar and rabbi, Hanna Weinberg spent her life sharing her love of Judaism with her family and the extended Jewish community. Born in 1927 in Germany, Hanna lived for a short time in Lithuania before moving to the United States when her father became a teacher at a Cleveland yeshiva. A few years later, upon founding and leading Ner Israel Rabbinical College, Hanna's father brought the family to Baltimore. In 1945, Hanna married one of the yeshiva's faculty members, Rabbi Yaacov Weinberg, and they had six children, Mathis, Aviva, Miriam, Yehudas, Naomi and Simcha. In addition to her role as a rebbetzin, Hanna worked as a Hebrew teacher, coordinated volunteer services at the Jewish Convalescent Home, and founded Bikur Cholim, a network of volunteers who care for the ill and their families. Dedicated to assisting abused women within the Jewish community, Hanna was been instrumental in opening the eyes of the Jewish communal world to the dangers that women were faci…

Directors & creators

Jewish Women's Archive

Subjects

Immigration; Education; Orthodox

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