Fanny Fligelman Brin

Overview

Fanny Fligelman Brin born Berlad, Romania October 10, 1884 (d. 1961). Pacifist; suffragist; Jewish peace leader. One of five women consultants to US delegation at founding of UN, 1945, representing Women's Action Committee for Lasting Peace.

Quotations

"War is global, peace is global and prosperity is global." (wartime decl., Litoff & McDonnell, Eur. Immigrant Women, p. 39).

"Peace is a condition of the survival of democracy, therefore democracy must find a way of guaranteeing peace." (Minn. Hist. Soc., Brin bio; 1908 photo U.Minn Alum)