Gerda lerner biography of abraham

Gerda Lerner's life and work so inextricably intertwined, gained prominence thanks to her fearless, continual examination of the world.

"In our culture, and in most patriarchal cultures, we have made an artificial division between thinking and acting, as though the two were mutually exclusive," she said in a 2002 interview with the Wisconsin Academy Review. "The most important thing, the thing I have always lived by, is that you must be engaged in some way in the world in which you live.

How, is for each person to choose."

Gerda Kronstein was born in Vienna, Austria on April 30, 1920. Raised in an upper-middle-class Jewish family, she developed a strong sense of justice at an early age, as she noticed the unequal treatment of household servants.

But her lens on the world changed dramatically when the Nazi regime imprisoned her family.

As she recounted 63 years later in Fireweed: A Political Autobiography, the "fragile community of survival" she developed with her ce