Roza Pomerantz-Meltzer

She contributed to a number of local and foreign journals, writing in both German and Polish, and participated in international congresses.

These included the Lviv Zionist papers Wshód and Przyszlośé as well as Die Welt and Das Israelische Familienblatt and the Swiss Jüdische Arbeiter and Dr. Blochs Wochenschrift.

Among her contributions were the short stories Ein Chazarenkönig, Chancia and the play Matka which was first performed in Lviv in Polish.

[7] She also exerted considerable influence on Zionist youth in Galicia, arranging and attending festivities and functions.

In 1901 in Tarnopol, she was elected chair of the district committee while in 1903, she proposed the establishment of a Galician Zionish women's association which led to the founding of the Kolo Kobiet Żydowskich (KKZ) in 1908 in Lviv.

Roza Pomerantz-Meltzer