Anitta Müller-Cohen

Anitta Müller-Cohen was born in 1890 in Vienna

Anitta Rosenzweig was born in Vienna in 1890 to a well-off Jewish family. Her father was a merchant. She studied for 2 years at a teacher training college in Vienna.

In 1909 she married the merchant Arnold Müller, and they had a daughter, Blanka. They divorced in 1921, and she then married Samuel Cohen, a Zionist businessman. The marriage deepened her interest in Zionism.

During World War I she set up a social aid group in Vienna that ran shelters for homeless children, mothers and refugees, many from Galicia and Bukovina. Her soup kitchen served about 3,000 people a day. She was a member of the Jewish National Party in Vienna.

In 1923 she organized the first World Congress of Jewish Women in Vienna. In 1925 she spoke at the opening of the American Jewish Congress in Chicago. In 1929 she was elected a vice-president of the World Federation of Jewish Women.

After time in Luxembourg and London, she settled in Tel Aviv. In 1936 she founded the Women's Social Service and she also led the Association of Austrian Immigrants. She was active in Mizrahi, later joined Herut, and died in Tel Aviv in 1962.