The Rabbi's
Atheist Daughter

“[Rose’s] identities come together seamlessly in this highly engaging biography by Bonnie S. Anderson, a scholar rightfully renowned for her stellar work on the international woman’s movement and feminism. ”

“Bonnie S. Anderson’s new biography elevates [Ernestine Rose] further into the top rank of 19th-century agitators. In this richly detailed portrait, Rose stands alongside William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, and Fanny Wright....[Anderson’s] picture of Rose is consistently drawn with clarity and color.”

“This biography of Rose is fabulous! Fabulous! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, so much so that I finished it in less than two days. ”

“[Rose’s] identities come together seamlessly in this highly engaging biography by Bonnie S. Anderson, a scholar rightfully renowned for her stellar work on the international woman’s movement and feminism. [This is] a biography, rich in context, that seems surprisingly relevant to readers today. Anderson sagely concludes that Rose’s concerns for racial equality, feminism, and free thought, enriched by an international perspective, gain new importance during an era of resurging religious fundamentalism.”

“Bonnie S. Anderson’s new biography elevates [Ernestine Rose] further into the top rank of 19th-century agitators. In this richly detailed portrait, Rose stands alongside William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, and Fanny Wright....[Anderson’s] picture of Rose is consistently drawn with clarity and color.”

“This biography of Rose is fabulous! Fabulous! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, so much so that I finished it in less than two days.”

“For someone (like me) who thought she knew Ernestine Rose, this book is a revelation. The gift Bonnie Anderson gives us is the opportunity to hear the fearless words actually spoken by Ernestine Rose, and they’re magnificent, powerful testimony to her constancy, boldness, and defiant advocacy for women’s rights.”

“Bonnie Anderson uncovers, in this deeply researched work, the astonishing life of Ernestine Potowski Rose, champion of all human rights. A powerful orator, she crisscrossed an ocean and continents to speak her mind. A contemporary newspaper expected that it would take a hundred years for her to be fully appreciated. This excellent biography of a woman of fierce intellect and uncompromising convictions fulfills that prediction, affording our generation the fullest depiction yet of the remarkable Ernestine Rose.”

“Ernestine Rose has long been relegated to the margins of the abolitionist and woman’s rights movements to which she devoted her life. In Bonnie Anderson’s new book we have, finally, a biography that is as eloquent, passionate, freethinking, transnational, argumentative, and eager to explore the boundaries of radical possibility as was Rose herself.”

“Bonnie Anderson tells the powerful story of Ernestine Rose, one of the most distinguished and distinctive advocates of woman’s rights, free thought, and racial equality in the nineteenth century. Rose linked activists in the United States with radical traditions in Britain and Europe, reminding readers of the multifaceted and transatlantic character of nineteenth-century social movements. While many books claim they are intended for both an academic and popular audience, The Rabbi’s Atheist Daughter delivers on that promise.”