Trailblazer: Connecticut Jewish Women Making History
Now on view through March 31
For Women’s History Month, the New Haven Museum hosts this traveling exhibit from the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford. Featuring 12 trailblazing Connecticut Jewish women who overcame obstacles of gender, social class, and religious identity to carve their own paths, the exhibit tells stories of perseverance despite untold challenges. From women’s rights activists to artists, journalists, and health and education reformers, each overcame barriers to make changes that still impact lives today.
Three of the women will be of particular interest to New Haveners: the artist Anni Albers; Ellen Ash Peters, the first female faculty member at Yale Law School and the first female justice of the State Supreme Court; and Florence Wald, considered the mother of the American hospice movement.
Photographs, publications, and objects related to City Historian Judith Ann Schiff (1937–2022) can be seen in the Community Case in the Museum’s rotunda and are from the collection of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven (JHSGNH). A New Haven Museum board member as well as the City Historian, Judy Schiff was a Yale University archivist and a founder of the JHSGNH and the Ethnic Heritage Center, among other local organizations.
Museum hours: Wed–Fri, 10 am–5 pm; Sat, noon–5 pm
Upcoming Talk: Sunday, March 19, 2 pm Trailblazing Jewish Women from New Haven: The First Annual Judith Ann Schiff Women's History Program | 
