Chana Blaksztejn

1922 poster promoting Chana Blaksztejn for member of parliament of the Second Polish Republic

Chana Blaksztejn was a Polish-Jewish writer and journalist active in Vilna in the 1920s. Known for her fight for women's suffrage, she unsuccessfully ran in the 1922 Polish legislative election as a candidate of the Jewish Democratic People's Block (Polish: Żydowski Demokratyczny Blok Ludowy) of Folkspartei.

References

Ellen Kellman (2007). Piotr Paziński, ed. "Feminizm i literatura. Rola Chany Blaksztejn w międzywojennym Wilnie" [Feminism and Literature: The role of Chana Blaksztejn in inter-war Wilno]. Midrasz (in Polish) (Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Midrasz) (10): 27–36. ISSN 1428-121X.

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