Dora Askowith

Dora Askowith (August 30, 1884 - October 23, 1958) was a Lithuanian-born American college professor, author and historian.

She was director of the Women’s Organization for the American Jewish Congress.

She graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University.

[2] For a short period in the 1920s, Askowith studied at Rabbinical school, although ordination was denied to female students.

[3] In 1891, her father, Jacob Baruch, and brother, Charles, designed one of the early versions of the Flag of Israel.