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Sarah L. Liebert was a leader in both Jewish education and Israeli improvement.She was born in Poland in 1892 and immigrated to the United States, settling in New York. She was active in Jewish communal and cultural life in the New York and New Jersey areas, achieving perhaps greatest public recognition as president of the Sholem Aleichem Women's Organization. She was also a member of the National Council of Jewish Women. In the 1920s and 1930s she served as Supervisor of Jewish Education of the Council's Farm and Rural Department, an organization that responded to the needs of Jews living in the rural areas of New York and New Jersey without a central Jewish community on which to rely.
In her position as supervisor of Jewish education, Liebert developed and disseminated Jewish educational materials in rural areas, contacted and trained itinerant Jewish educational teachers, organized Jewish educational classes, and helped new immigrants adjust to their new environment. She continually stressed the need for American Jewish philanthropic organizations to care for Jews throughout the land, in all communities. Between 1949 and 1953 she served as Associate Chairman of the Ladies' Auxiliaries of the Council of Organizations of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York Campaign. She played a central role in raising funds for new housing to be built in Israel to accommodate the influx of new immigrants to the country after its establishment. Her position in Jewish cultural and communal life in New York allowed her to meet and correspond personally with such prominent Jewish women as Celia Adler and Louise W. Wise. Sarah Liebert died in New York in 1955. She was also the author of Mirele un ire fraynd un andere mayses (New York, 1952) and Jewish History. Part 1: the Patriarchs.
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