Summary Of The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter By Bonnie Anderson

I attended a book launching event at the Woody Tanger Auditorium located at the Library in Brooklyn College, where Professor Bonnie Anderson discusses and presents her new novel, “The Rabbi’s Atheist Daughter: Ernestine Rose, International Feminist Pioneer.” Professor Anderson addresses issues of women’s rights, oppression, humanity, and equal rights of women. Professor Anderson writes about the career and life of Ernestine Rose, also telling her story as a feminist during the nineteenth-century. Professor Anderson explains how Rose is a radical from an early age, and how she is a remarkably hard worker. Also Rose wants everyone to know about the proposition she believes in and lives by, being that every single person on this earth is created
Rose is an only child of a Polish rabbi, however, she refused to follow and believe in Judaism at a very young age. Fortunately, she won the battle when she sued for her dowry due to an arranged and forced marriage. She later left Judaism, her family and lifestyle, and Poland for good. Rose had later moved to London and met her husband William Rose. After she got married her and her husband moved to New York in 1836. During her time in the United States, she immediately became the leader of movements against slavery, religion, and women’s oppression. Rose constantly gave speeches and voiced her opinions and beliefs. She never remained quiet about what she believed in and wanted the whole world to hear what she had to say. And that is exactly what she did. Further, Rose had confronted the radical Christians which had motivated many of the nineteenth-century women reformers during that time. However, even though Rose had discarded Judaism, she understood what the meaning of anti-Semitism is. Furthermore, around the 1920's when women finally had the right to vote, everything that Rose had worked so hard for had been overlooked and technically
Rose had been a part of the “antislavery movement” Rose states that “[a]woman is a slave from the cradle to the grave…father, guardian, husband, master still. One conveys her, like a piece of property over to the other” (Ginsberg, 39). However, Rose insisted “on the significance of this early feminist issues by uniting her claims about married women’s proprietary disenfranchisement to the issue of chattel slavery on the United States” (Ginsberg,