The Remarkable Social Worker: Alice Davis Menken
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,…