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not reputably affluent, snobbish or popular. 85The sorority was renamed Iota Alpha Pi in1913, and survived into the 1970's. The sorority was disbanded in 1971. 86The next Jewish sorority, Alpha Epsilon PhiAEΦ, opened at Barnard College in 1909. The earlyAEΦ served as the female counterpart to theearly ZBT. Its women tended to be of the upper-class. Despite the similarity of theirnames and likeliness of their badges (see above), ΑΕΠ and AEΦ's foundation wereunrelated. Founded four years apart, it is unclear if ΑΕΠ, founded second, was aware ofAEΦ's existence, and historians of both organizations failed to discover any link betweenthe two organizations. Where as AEΦ attracted elite women, ΑΕΠ sought out workingmen from middle-class homes.Similar to the fraternities, two sororities, Phi Sigma Sigma and Delta Phi Epsilonwere founded by Jewish women as non-Sectarian sororities. Phi Sigma Sigma ΦΣΣ,known as Phi Sig, was founded at Hunter College in 1913 by founders Lillian GordonAlpern, Josephine Ellison Breakstone, Fay Chertkoff, Estelle Melnick Cole, JeanetteLipka Furst, Ethel Gordon Kraus, Shirley Cohen Laufer, Claire Wunder McArdle, RoseSher Seidman, and Gwen Zaliels Snyder. Phi Sigma Sigma sorority was derogatorilyreferred to in Yiddish as "Fleishigmaigma", fleish meaning "meat", and igmaigmadrawing on the name of the sorority, by competing Jewish sororities. 87 Delta Phi Epsilonwas founded on March 17, 1917 at New York University Law School as the first nonsectariansorority at a professional school. The founders, Dorothy Schwartzmen Cohen,85 Sanua, 8186 Sanua, 8187 Sanua, 21421
Ida Bienstock Landau, Minna Goldsmith Mahler, Eva Efron Robyn and Sylvia StiermanCohn, known as the DIMES, created a sorority that would creategood fellowship among sorority women studentsthroughout the various colleges of this country...to create asecret society composed of these women based upon theirgood moral character, regardless of nationality or creed 88Though they founded a non-sectarian sorority, each of the DIMES went on to lead Jewishlives. For example, Ida Bienstock Landau, served as an assistant general manager for theJewish Telegraphic Agency, and helped relocate Jewish survivors and refugees afterWorld War I. In 1921 she married Jacob Landau, a Viennese, and lost her U.SCitizenship and her right to practice law. At this time, American women lost theircitizenship upon marrying a non-citizen. She petitioned congress, and as a result of theattention she brought to her case, the U.S adopted the Cable Act or Case Act, whichallowed American women to maintain their citizenship even if married to a foreigner. 89Despite the founders' Jewish pride, Delta Phi Epsilon remained adamantly Non-Sectarian.Though both sororities claimed to be non-sectarian, they were only incorporated into theNational Panhellenic Council along with the Jewish sororities in 1952, previously barredfrom the council until that year. The National Panhellenic held that if they "admit theJews, we'll have to take the niggers." 90 Like the fraternities, even though the nonsectariansororities admitted Gentile sorors, few wanted to break their bread or live withJews.88 Delta Phi Epislon New Member Orientation Manaul89 IDA BIENSTOCK LANDAU - Obituary - NYTimes.com," The New York Times - Breaking News,World News & Multimedia, <strong>May</strong> 07, 1986, section goes here, accessed April 28, 20<strong>11</strong>,http://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/07/obituaries/ida-bienstock-landau.html.90 Sanua, 19322
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