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Ann Gluckman: My road to belief

In 2020, Ann Gluckman published the third book in the series, Identity and Involvement. At (then) 91 she wrote the story of her parents’ life and her own life, to show how she came to her own personal beliefs within Judaism.

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Augusta Klippel (née Manoy)

Augusta Klippel (née Manoy), who arrived in New Zealand in 1910 from Latvia with her mother and two sisters, was the first [Jewish] woman to graduate in medicine in New Zealand, receiving her degree from Otago University in 1926, and following this with graduate studies in pediatrics in London and Vienna.

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