- Roza Pomerantz-Meltzer
Roza Pomerantz-Meltzer , (also Rosa Pomerantz-Meltzer) (d. 1934) [died at age 55, Oct. 20, 1934, American Jewish Yearbook, By American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society ofAmerica, 1935, p. 270 ] ofLvov , was the first woman elected to theSejm , the Parliament ofPoland . She was elected in 1919 as a member of a Zionist party. [ God's Playground: A History of Poland, By Norman Davies, Columbia University Press, 1982, p. 302 ] [Hostages of Modernization: Studies on Modern Antisemitism, 1870-1933/39, By Herbert ArthurStrauss, Published 1993, Walter de Gruyter, p. 985] In 1908, Meltzer founded a Jewish women's organization with Zionist leanings in Lvov. [ [http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/rzeszow/rze056.html Rzeszow, Poland (Pages 56 - 67) ] ]References
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