Awards
Pogrebin has been honored for her more than forty years of writing and activism on women’s rights and the advancement of Middle East peace. In 1969 and 1976, she was named an “Outstanding Young Woman of America,” and in 1974 she earned an Emmy Award for her contribution to Free to Be...You and Me. She has received awards from organizations ranging from Women in Communications, to the National Council on Family Relations, to the Women’s League for Israel, which gave her its “Woman of the Year Award” in 1989. She has also received the “Gloria Steinem Women of Vision” Award and earned Elle magazine Readers’ Prize in 2002. Pogrebin is listed in nearly a dozen Who’s Who volumes including Who’s Who in America,; Who’s Who of American Women; Who’s Who in American Jewry; Who’s Who of Writers, Editors and Poets; Who’s Who of International Authors and Writers; and the World’s Who’s Who of Women.
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