Hadassah Lieberman (born Hadassah Freilich in the refugee camp of Prague, Czechoslovakia, in Mar. 28, 1948) is the wife of United States Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID - CT).
She is the daughter of Rabbi Samuel Freilich, a Holocaust survivor from Munkács, Carpathian Ruthenia (now Mukachevo, part of Ukraine and predecessor Ukrainian SSR since 1945, 1939-45 by Hungary of Axis powers), who died in 1993, and Ella Wieder Freilich, also a Holocaust survi...
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Hadassah Lieberman (born Hadassah Freilich in the refugee camp of Prague, Czechoslovakia, in Mar. 28, 1948) is the wife of United States Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID - CT).
She is the daughter of Rabbi Samuel Freilich, a Holocaust survivor from Munkács, Carpathian Ruthenia (now Mukachevo, part of Ukraine and predecessor Ukrainian SSR since 1945, 1939-45 by Hungary of Axis powers), who died in 1993, and Ella Wieder Freilich, also a Holocaust survivor who died on August 6, 2004. She grew up in Gardner, Massachusetts, where her father was the rabbi at Congregation Ohave Shalom.
She obtained a BA in Government and Dramatics from Boston University in 1970, and an MA in International Relations from Northeastern University in 1971. She has worked as a Research Analyst at Lehman Brothers (1971-72), as Director of Policy, Planning, and Communications at Pfizer (1982-85), and as a Senior Program Officer at the National Research Council (1990-93).
Hadassah has also worked for the lobbying...
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