Nadage Doree

Nadage Doree was a Jewish activist, feminist, and prolific writer of books on moral purity (The Sinful Bachelor, 1908 and Give Women the Home, 1915) and justice for Jews (Gelta, or the Czar and the Songstress, 1905). She organized fundraisers to benefit the survivors of the Kishinev pogroms with Sarah Bernhardt, and was arrested in Washington in 1905 for interrupting President Roosevelt's church service to urge him to defend Russia's Jews. She began as an opera singer and actress, joined Lily Langtry's company and then sued her, produced plays, wrote patriotic songs, was a model for Duke cigarette cards, and had race horses named for her.