The Jewish Encyclopedia
of Western Pennsylvania
A project of the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Daughters of Lilith was a Jewish lesbian collective in Pittsburgh.
The idea emerged after several local Jewish women attended an annual retreat in the Philadelphia area hosted by a Jewish feminist collective called “Achiyot Or” (Sisters of Light) and decided to create something similar in Pittsburgh specifically for Jewish lesbian women. The formed Daughters of Lilith in early 1987. The group hosted an all-day conference at the Oakland Women’s Center on May 31, 1987 titled “Daughters of Lilith: Affirming our Jewish and Lesbian identities; a one-day conference.”
The following year, Daughters of Lilith joined the emerging Bet Tikvah Congregation to encourage the development of a single place for local LGBTQ Jews.