Early feminist Ernestine Rose, more famous in her time than
Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Susan B. Anthony, has been undeservedly
forgotten. During the 1850s, Rose was an outstanding orator for
women's rights in the United States who became known as "the Queen
of the platform." Yet despite her successes and close friendships
with other activists, she would gradually be erased from history
for being too much of an outlier: a foreigner, a radical, and, of
most concern to her peers and later historians, an atheist. In The
Rabbi's Atheist Daughter, the most extensively researched account
of Rose's life and career to date, Bonnie S. Anderson recovers the
unique legacy of one of the nineteenth century's most prominent
radical activists. Born the only child of a Polish rabbi, Ernestine
Rose rejected religion at an early age, legally fought a betrothal
to a man she did not want to marry, and left her family, Judaism,
and Poland forever. After living in Berlin and Paris, she moved to
London, where she became a follower of the
manufacturer-turned-socialist Robert Owen. There she met her future
husband, fellow Owenite William Rose, and together they emigrated
to New York City in 1836. In the U. S., Rose was a prominent leader
at every national women's rights convention. She lectured in
twenty-three of the thirty-one existing states, in favor of
feminism and against slavery and religion. But the rise of
anti-Semitism and religious fervor during the Civil War-coupled
with rifts in the women's movement when black men, but not women,
got the vote-effectively left Rose without a platform. Returning to
England, she continued speaking, advocating for feminism, free
thought, and pacifism. Although many radicals honored her work, her
contributions to women's rights had been passed over by historians
by the 1920s. Nearly a century later, The Rabbi's Atheist Daughter,
an engaging, well-rounded portrait of one of the mothers of the
American feminist movement, returns Ernestine Rose to her rightful
place.
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