11 Facts About Margarita Nelken

Margarita Nelken was a Spanish feminist and writer.

Margarita Nelken was a well known intellectual and a central figure in the earliest Spanish women's movement in the 1930s.

Margarita Nelken's parents were of German-Jewish origin and owners of a jewellery store.

Margarita Nelken studied music, painting and languages, and she learned to speak French, German and English besides her native Spanish.

Margarita Nelken's sister, Carmen Eva Nelken, was an actress and writer.

Margarita Nelken wrote books of fiction with a socio-political orientation in the 1920s, including La trampa del arenal.

Margarita Nelken wrote books about Spanish women writers and Spanish women politicians as well as short stories.

Margarita Nelken held militant perspective of feminism, claiming that exploitation of women workers had negative effects on both male workers and women.

Margarita Nelken achieved a position in the Parliament in the elections of November 1933 and February 1936.

Margarita Nelken served in the Cortes until the end of the war in 1939.

Margarita Nelken wrote a book: Los judios en la cultura hispanica, which was republished by AHebraica in Spain in 2009, over thirty years after her death.