International Women’s Movements, Peace Activism, and the World of Politics: The Rosika Schwimmer Archive in New York


 Rosika Schwimmer (1877, Budapest–1948, New York) was one of the best-known women’s rights leaders and peace activists in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and worldwide. Unfortunately, she has been mostly forgotten or treated superficially in Hungarian and international scholarship until recently. In this article, I give a short description of the Rosika Schwimmer Papers in the New York Public Library, where I have been researching since 2017, and of the history of this archive, with a short biographical sketch of the life and career of Schwimmer.