Nelly Las

Nelly Las (PhD) is an Israeli scholar specialized in modern Jewish history and women's studies. The subject of her PhD thesis was “The Impact of Zionism on French Jewry from the Dreyfus Affair to World War II (1896-1942)” (Sorbonne, Paris, 1985). She has published several articles and books on French Jewry, Zionism, feminism, and Jewish women's humanitarian commitments. Among her publications are Jewish Voices in Feminism - Transnational Perspectives (University of Nebraska Press-Studies in Antisemitism Series, 2015; originally published in French as Voix juives dans le féminisme, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2011).

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