Dora Askowith

Dora Askowith (August 30, 1884 - October 23, 1958) was a Lithuanian-born American college professor, author and historian. She was director of the Women’s Organization for the American Jewish Congress.

Article by Dora Askowith (Buffalo Jewish Review, 5 Mar 1926, p.3)

Life

Askowith received her primary education at Winthrop School, in Roxbury, Boston and attended high school at Girls' High School.^[1] She was born in Kovno. She graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University. From 1912 to 1957, she taught at Hunter College.^[2]

For a short period in the 1920s, Askowith studied at Rabbinical school, although ordination was denied to female students.^[3]

In 1891, her father, Jacob Baruch, and brother, Charles, designed one of the early versions of the Flag of Israel.^[4][5]

Publications

Books

• The Toleration of the Jews in the Roman Empire. Part I. The Toleration of the Jews Under Julius Caesar and Augustus (1915) — Published by Columbia University
• Three Outstanding Women: Mary Fels, Rebekah Kohut, Annie Nathan Meyer (1941)

Book chapters

• Askowith, D. (1927). “Prolegomena: Legal Fictions or Evasions of the Law.” In Jewish Studies in Memory of Israel Abrahams. New York: Jewish Institute of Religion.
• Askowith, D. (1930). “The Life and Work of Luigi Luzzatti.” In Luzzatti, L. (Ed.) God in Freedom: Studies in the Relations Between Church and State. New York: Macmillan.

Journal articles

• Askowith, D. (1944). The first Zionist flag. Jewish Social Studies, 55-57.
• Askowith, D. (1947). Ezekiel and St. Augustine: A comparative study. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 15(4), 224-227.
• Askowith, D. (1956). The role of women in the field of higher Jewish education. Judaism, 5(2), 169.

Other

• A Call to the Jewish Women of America (c. 1917) (pamphlet)
• The purchase of Louisiana (1953) (unknown)