{{short description|German writer from the USA}} [[File:Bertha Hirsch Baruch.jpg|thumb|Bertha Hirsch Baruch]]
'''Bertha Hirsch Baruch''' was a German-born American writer, social worker, and [[suffragist]].
Baruch was born in the [[Province of Posen]], [[Germany]]. She immigrated to [[New London, Connecticut]], United States, with her father in 1876.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=James |first=George Wharton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PpcOAAAAIAAJ&q=baruch |title=The California Birthday Book: Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of Living California Authors, with a Brief Biographical Sketch of Each |date=1909 |publisher=Arroyo Guild Press |pages=393 |language=en}}</ref> Baruch wrote [[poetry]] as an [[Adolescence|adolescent]] and had been encouraged by [[Rose Hawthorne Lathrop]] in her literary efforts.<ref name=":0" /> Active in College Settlement and university extension work, she attended Pennsylvania University and [[Yale University|Yale]].<ref name=":0" /> She later worked on the editorial staff for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.<ref name=":0" /> In 1906 she lived at 1168 W. 36th St., [[Los Angeles, California]].<ref name=":0" />
Baruch was active in the women's [[suffrage]] movement. She became the county president of the Los Angeles Suffrage Association in 1905 when two conventions were hosted: *the Women's Parliament, October 10–11, and *the county convention of the Equal Suffrage League October 12.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1905-10-13 |title=Women Demand Jurors' Right |pages=2 |work=Los Angeles Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-herald/121852568/ |access-date=2023-10-06 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
In 1908 Baruch became the treasurer of the Los Angeles Jewish Women's Foreign Relief Association. She started a branch of the [[Optimist club|Optimist Club]] in Los Angeles and was the third woman to hold office in the organization.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1909-05-09 |title=Will Form Optimist Club in Los Angeles |pages=31 |work=Los Angeles Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-herald/133003957/ |access-date=2023-10-06 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Baruch was also the founder of the Los Angeles branch of the [[National Council of Jewish Women]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 January 1912 |title=Tribute to Labor |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/connecticut/norwich/norwich-bulletin/1912/01-09/page-5/ |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=Norwich Bulletin |via=Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
She published ''Dress as a Social Factor'' in 1912.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baruch |first1=Bertha Hirsch |title=Dress as a Social Factor |date=1912 |hdl=2027/uc1.$b260620 }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} * *Knoles, Tully C. "What Is Nationality?" ''Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California'' 10, no. 3 (1917): 5–12. Accessed March 22, 2020. doi:10.2307/41168739.
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