Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein;[1] January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012)[2] was a radical feminist writer and activist.
Firestone was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on January 7, 1945.[1][12] She was the second of six children and the first daughter of Kate Weiss, a German Jewish refugee who fled the Holocaust, and Sol Feuerstein, a salesman from Brooklyn.[3] Firestone's parents were Orthodox Jews.
On August 28, 2012, Firestone was found deceased in her New York City apartment. The discovery was made by the building’s owner after neighbors reported a foul odor emanating from her unit. A superintendent looked through the window from the fire escape and observed her body on the floor. According to the landlord, Bob Perl, it was estimated that she had been deceased for approximately one month.[10]
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Susan Brownmiller (born Susan Warhaftig; February 15, 1935 – May 24, 2025) was an American journalist, author and feminist activist
born in Brooklyn, New York City, on February 15, 1935, to Mae and Samuel Warhaftig, a lower-middle-class Jewish couple. As a child Brownmiller was sent to the East Midwood Jewish Center for two afternoons a week to learn Hebrew and Jewish history.
