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PRINTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN ZIONISTS, 1920

HANDS, L.  SOME LEGAL DIFFICULTIES WHICH BESET THE JEWESS. (Kilburn: Hart & Son Ltd.)[1920] "Printed for Private Circulation." 16 pp. 8vo., pale green stapled wrappers printed in black. The International Conference of Women Zionists was held in London, July 1920. With bibliographical references on last page. Paper on the social conditions and political oppression facing Jewish women. Topics discussed include: Social conditions, political oppression, legal status of women, divorce: the husband's rights; divorce: the wife's position; the childless widow, marriage with the descendants of Aaron, polygamy, neglect of legal precautions, need for registration of marriages, immigrant Rabbis and civil law, and need for a central Rabbinic authority. Six copies are listed in OCLC. Harvard and The Library of Congress both list copies printed in 1917. In near fine condition with only minor thumbing. Wrappers clean, crisp. SOLD
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