Name: Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Date of Birth: January 13, 1810
Locattion of Birth: Piotrkow, Poland
Date of Death: August 4, 1892
Location of Death: Brighton, England
Parents: Father was a Pollish Rabbi
Education: Taught to be a Hebrew by her father
Ernestine Rose lived in Berlin for 2 years and then The Netherlands, and Paris before settling in England at the age at 21. While in England, she married William E. Rose. The couple immigrated to the United States, where Ernestine Rose began the drive for equal rights for women. She strongly opposed the law of that time ,that deprived married women of the right to control property they had owned before marriage, and in the 1840s she led a drive in New York state to reverse that law. In 1848 the state legislature enacted a measure permitting married women the right to control property that had been theirs as a single women.
An effective speaker, Rose promoted not only women's rights but also the abolition of slavery and a ban on the manufacturing of alcoholic beverages. In 1869, she cofounded, with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the National Woman Suffrage Association, whose chief aim was a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. By that time Rose's health had deteriorated. In 1869, Stanton and Anthony left the American Equal Rights Association, and Rose and her English husband moved back to England. Rose did come back to the United States in 1873 for a meeting with the National Woman Suffrage Association. However, she wanted nothing published about herself and refused an offer in 1877 from Anthony to write a portion of the History of Woman Suffrage. After her death, Stanton and Anthony saw to it that she was given her appropriate place in history.
I thought that Ernestine Rose made a lot of contributions to the women's rights. She was one of the most famous Jewish heroes. She was given an appropiate place in history.
Work Cited-
1) Dictionary of America Biography, America Council of Learned Societies, 1935 p.158-159
2) Notable American Women 1607-1950, Copyright by Radcliffe College 1971, p.195-196
3).http://www.awomanaweek.com/rose.html