By Jackie Brettschneider, Research Intern, Center for Jewish History Alice Davis Menken was a social worker for the courts and correctional institutions of New York state and city. She worked to rehabilitate delinquent girls within the penal system. This makes her an interesting Jewish woman because of her desire to help girls with no one else to turn to. Seeing these girls as people,…
From our friends at the Museum of the City of New York Event Description: From the Bowery to Broadway: Yiddish Theater in Song and Conversation Wednesday, May 18 at 6:30 pm at the Museum of the City of New York The Bowery was the birthplace of Yiddish theater and the music that fueled it. Although it was created by immigrants from Eastern Europe,…
By Nicole Greenhouse Hadassah chapters have a long history of fundraising for Israeli public welfare projects and the Hadassah hospitals in at Mount Scopus and Ein Kerem. As part of their fundraising efforts, chapters produced cookbooks, made up of beloved recipes of chapter members. Many of these chapter cookbooks can be found in the Hadassah Archives. The team working on the processing of the…