Rebekah Bettelheim Kohut

Rebekah Bettelheim Kohut (September 9, 1864 – August 11, 1951) was an American educator, writer, and community leader, born in Hungary.

They lived in Richmond, Virginia before settling in San Francisco, California, where Kohut finished high school.

[5] As an educator, she was the only Jewish woman to address the National Congress of Mothers in 1897, on the topic of "Parental Reverence, as Taught in Hebrew Homes.

She wrote two memoirs, My Portion (1925),[10] and More Yesterdays (1950), and a biography of her stepson, His Father's House: The Story of George Alexander Kohut (1938).

[11] In the 1930s, she served as an advisor to the New York State Employment Service,[12] and raised funding and awareness for addressing the plight of German Jewish refugees.

"I was born in Europe, grew to girlhood in Virginia, was educated in California, and hope to end my days in New York," she wrote in 1895.