{"id":2284,"date":"2012-04-30T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/30\/alice-davis-menken-was-born-to-privilege-in-1870\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:50:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:50:38","slug":"alice-davis-menken-was-born-to-privilege-in-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/30\/alice-davis-menken-was-born-to-privilege-in-1870\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2284 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\/2012\/04\/30\/alice-davis-menken-was-born-to-privilege-in-1870\/attachment\/2285\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m3b9iyJo1t1r3qmd1o1_r5_1280-150x150.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\/2012\/04\/30\/alice-davis-menken-was-born-to-privilege-in-1870\/attachment\/2286\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tumblr_m3b9iyJo1t1r3qmd1o2_r5_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jwa.org\/encyclopedia\/article\/menken-alice-davis\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Davis Menken<\/a> was \u201cborn to privilege in 1870 and [she] married into wealth in 1893,\u201d as Michael D. Feldberg explains in <em>Blessings of Freedom: Chapters in American Jewish History<\/em>. Menken \u201cdedicated her life to helping Jewish women less fortunate than herself&quot; (p. 106).<\/p>\n<p>We can guess from Alice Davis Menken\u2019s personal papers\u2014which live here at the Center for Jewish History in the AJHS collections\u2014that her love of poetry played a significant role in her life experience. She saved clippings of poems from newspapers, carried poems in the inside pockets of her travel journals and copied the poems she loved into notebooks.<\/p>\n<p>On this final day of National Poetry Month, then, we would like to feature two of the notebooks (above) of this <em>reader<\/em> of poetry\u2014someone who, like us, recognized the importance of celebrating poetry year-round.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who contributed to the blog&rsquo;s National Poetry Month celebration! You can <a href=\"http:\/\/16thstreet.tumblr.com\/tagged\/National-Poetry-Month\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to review all of this year&rsquo;s Poetry Month entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Davis Menken was \u201cborn to privilege in 1870 and [she] married into wealth in 1893,\u201d as Michael D. Feldberg explains in Blessings of Freedom: Chapters in American Jewish History. Menken \u201cdedicated her life to helping Jewish women less fortunate than herself&quot; (p. 106). We can guess from Alice Davis Menken\u2019s personal papers\u2014which live here at the Center for Jewish History in the AJHS&#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":[44,357,962],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-ajhs-collections","tag-alice-davis-menken","tag-national-poetry-month","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","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=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}