Judith Kaplan Eisenstein

Judith Kaplan Eisenstein
BornSeptember 10, 1909
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedFebruary 14, 1996(1996-02-14) (aged 86)
Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
EducationColumbia University, Juilliard School, Jewish Institute of Religion, Jewish Theological Seminary Teachers Institute
Known forAuthor, musicologist and composer, first to publicly celebrate a Bat Mitzvah
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Judith Eisenstein (née Kaplan; September 10, 1909 – February 14, 1996) was an American author, musicologist, composer, theologian. She was the eldest daughter of Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, and the first Jewish woman to publicly celebrate a bat mitzvah in the United States in 1922.

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