Rachel Kranson Awarded Fellowship to Study "Holocaust Appropriation and the Controversy over Abortion"

Rachel Kranson received a Sid and Ruth Lapidus Fellowship from the American Jewish Historical Society to support her research. These funds will support a project entitled "An Obscene and Outrageous Slur: Holocaust Appropriation and the Controversy over Abortion,” which will analyze Jewish responses to anti-abortion activists who compared legal abortion to the Holocaust. During the summer and fall of 2018, she will be traveling to the American Jewish Historical Society to plumb the records of the American Jewish Congress and the NY chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women, and will analyze their vociferous objections to those who appropriated Holocaust imagery in their efforts to criminalize abortion. This study will be part of a larger project on American Jewish involvement in the national controversy over reproductive rights.