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Biography of Bella Stavisky Abzug
Name: Bella Stavisky Abzug
Birth Date: July 24, 1920
Death Date: March 31, 1998
Place of Birth: New York, New York
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: activist, lawyer, women's rights, politician, civil rights activist
Bella Stavisky Abzug
Liberal lawyer and unconventional politician, Bella Stavisky Abzug (1920-1998) works energetically for civil and women's rights. She served three terms as a New York Congresswoman.Bella Stavisky Abzug was born on July 24, 1920, in the Bronx, New York. She was the daughter of Emanuel and Esther Stavisky, Russian Jewish immigrants who owned a local meat market. During her youth she worked in her father's store until it failed in the 1920s and he turned to selling insurance. In 1930 her father died, which left her mother to support the family with his insurance money and jobs in local department stores. She attended an all-female high school in the west Bronx and eventually entered Hunter College, where she excelled as a student, earning her degree in 1942.Student ActivistAbzug was elected as president of her high school class and later as student body president at Hunter College. She taught Hebrew and Jewish history on the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Organization (WEDO), and as senior advisor to UNCED Secretary General Maurice Strong she successfully campaigned to incorporate key issues of the women's agenda into official statements approved at the Earth Summit. On March 31, 1998, Abzug died due to complications following heart surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. Further Reading Bella Abzug wrote her autobiography, Bella, edited by Mel Ziegler and published by the Saturday Review Press in 1972. While it chronicles Abzug's political career up to that time, she remained in Congress four more years and was active later. There is a biography of her by Doris Faber, Bella Abzug (William Morrow, 1976). She is listed in Political Profiles: The Nixon/Ford Years, Facts on File, v. 5 (1979). She has also been written up in the New York Times Biographical Service in February and December, 1978. Numerous contemporary articles have appeared about her in publications such as Time, Newsweek, The New Republic, and Life.
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