Anna Ben-Yusuf

Madame Anna Ben-Yusuf was a German milliner and teacher based in Boston and New York City. She wrote The Art of Millinery, one of the first reference books on millinery technique. They had four daughters - Esther Zeghdda Ben Youseph Nathan, better known as Zaida (1869-1933), Heidi (c.1873-1915), Leila (c.1877-1967) and Pearl (c.1878-1940), before the marriage fell apart.

From September 1905 to June 1907, Anna Ben-Yusuf was an instructor in millinery at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She resigned in 1907 to set up a school of her own on West 23rd Street. In 1992, a revised edition was reprinted as Edwardian Hats: The Art of Millinery.

Books

1909 — The Art of Millinery 1992 — Edwardian Hats: The Art of Millinery

Death Anna Ben-Yusuf died in New York on 8 December 1909.