What else, besides being the model for a character in Sir Walter Scotts Ivanhoe, and a founder of the Hebrew Sunday School Society, is Rebecca Gratz noted for?
Her home was a gathering place for people such as Washington Irving and Fanny Kemble. She helped found the Female Association for the Relief of Woman and Children, the Philadelphia Orphans Asylum,the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society and other charities. Source: Notable American Women, 1607-1950, v.1, p.75.
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