{"id":1626,"date":"2014-06-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/30\/all-images-collection-of-yeshiva-university\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:39:13","slug":"all-images-collection-of-yeshiva-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/30\/all-images-collection-of-yeshiva-university\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1626 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/30\/all-images-collection-of-yeshiva-university\/attachment\/1627\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_m86s7sBcv31r3qmd1o2_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/30\/all-images-collection-of-yeshiva-university\/attachment\/1628\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_m86s7sBcv31r3qmd1o3_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/30\/all-images-collection-of-yeshiva-university\/attachment\/1629\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_m86s7sBcv31r3qmd1o1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>All images: Collection of Yeshiva University Museum<\/p>\n<p><span>A sizeable portion of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who streamed into New York at the turn of the 20th century found work in the city&rsquo;s expanding <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/history\/Modern_History\/1700-1914\/America_at_the_Turn_of_the_Century\/Eastern_European_Immigration\/Factory_Workers.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">garment industry<\/a><span>. Although only about 10% were actual trained tailors,\u00a0many Jewish immigrants held experience in both\u00a0producing clothing&ndash;since the garment industry in\u00a0Russia was one of the only\u00a0businesses open to Jews&ndash;and held industrial skills, making them prime candidates for operating machinery in clothing factories and sweatshops.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Conditions were extremely poor in the sweatshops and factories where they found work, but immigrants discovered that the close-knit environment\u00a0of clothing manufacture allowed\u00a0them to work with their families, preserve cultural and religious traditions, make acquaintances and even start\u00a0unions.\u00a0By 1897, up to 75% of NYC laborers employed in clothing manufacture were Jewish. Some of these Jewish workers, as these colorful\u00a0advertisements show, used their garment expertise to open their own apparel companies, hawking everything from caps to boots. Cherubic children appear frequently in these ads, and, unfortunately, children also appeared frequently in garment-industry sweatshops. <\/p>\n<p>You can view more images in our partners&rsquo; digital archive <a href=\"http:\/\/access.cjh.org\/query.php?term=clothing&amp;qtype=basic&amp;stype=contains&amp;paging=25&amp;dtype=any&amp;repo=all#1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All images: Collection of Yeshiva University Museum A sizeable portion of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who streamed into New York at the turn of the 20th century found work in the city&rsquo;s expanding garment industry. Although only about 10% were actual trained tailors,\u00a0many Jewish immigrants held experience in both\u00a0producing clothing&ndash;since the garment industry in\u00a0Russia was one of the only\u00a0businesses open to Jews&ndash;and held industrial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[514,515,10,406,434,208,8,108,9,367,34,159,513,311,43],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-ads","tag-advertising","tag-center-for-jewish-history","tag-children","tag-europe","tag-fashion","tag-history","tag-immigration","tag-jewish-history","tag-jews","tag-museums","tag-new-york-city","tag-sweatshops","tag-unions","tag-yeshiva-university-museum","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}