Mathilde Roth Schechter [SEP] date of death
Mathilde Roth Schechter
Mathilde Roth Schechter (also Matilda; December 16, 1859 – August 27, 1924) was the American founder of the U.S. National Women's League of Conservative Judaism in 1918.
Schechter was born in Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland). She was married to Dr. Solomon Schechter, a prominent rabbi who was chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA). They lived in Cambridge, England before immigrating to the United States in 1902.
She founded and taught at the
took on the unofficial post of "Mr. and Mrs. Seminary" at the Jewish Theological Seminary, succeeding Solomon and Mathilde Roth Schechter; in this capacity the couple hosted open houses on Shabbat and on holidays. Ginzberg received numerous awards during her career; in 1966 she was named New York State Mother of the Year, and ten years later she was made a member of the Seminary's Honorary Society of Fellows. In 1980 she was posthumously awarded the Mathilde Schechter Award for her accomplishments.