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Collection:  Women in Communal Life

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Frame 45829: Click for full display
Date: 1920's
Location: Kiev
Photog: n/a 
Description:
Portrait of children (by full bowls) and staff (in the pantry) at a meal at a children's kitchen. Yiddish/English sign above door: "...150 children maintained by the Women's Branch and the North London Committee of the Ukrainian Federation of Jews..."
 
Date: August 1911
Location: Novo-Vorontsovka
Photog: Adamov, A.N. 
Frame 50626: Click for full display
Description:
Studio portrait of "the Literary Committee" (written on back in Yiddish): a group of young men and women. (Standing, right) Dovid Miller.
 
Frame 53671: Click for full display
Date: ca. 1918-1920
Location: Kishinev
Photog:  
Description:
Portrait of women doing paperwork for refugees: well-to-do women sit at a table; a crowd of ragged refugees stand. (Written on photo in Yiddish) "Women's Committee to Aid Russian Jewish Refugees."
 
Date: 1905
Location: Bielsk
Photog:  
Frame 43613: Click for full display
Description:
Studio portrait: "Three important women activists of the Bielsk committee of the PPS [Polish Socialist Party]... The woman at right, who was then called 'Rakhtshe', is now of Patterson [N.J.]." (From 'Forward' photo essay on revolutionaries, 1932.)
 
Frame 31339: Click for full display
Date: 1919
Location: Lublin
Photog: n/a 
Description:
In an office of the AJDC (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee): a committee meeting of women who will be in charge of a children's summer camp takes place under an American flag.
 
Date: Before 1907
Location: Vilna
Photog: n/a 
Frame 27963: Click for full display
Description:
Studio portrait of Dvora Esther Gelfer (1817-1907), philanthropist and founder of a `gmiles khesed' society, which provided small interest-free loans. She wears an elaborate bonnet, a `shaytl' (wig worn by Orthodox women) and holds a cloth bag.
 
Frame 33885: Click for full display
Date: After World War I
Location: Svisloch
Photog:  
Description:
Studio portrait of Neshke Sulies, one of the first women workers to join the Jewish Socialist Bund. She was also active in the 'khevre line' (society to give overnight lodging).
 
Date: pub. May 9, 1926
Location: Biala Bilits
Photog: Kacyzne, Alter 
Frame 42772: Click for full display
Description:
"A girls' 'kheyder' [traditional school]. ...the Biala... 'melamedke' [female teacher] and two of her pupils..." "A young ladies' seminary. Feyge Shnur... instructs young Yiddish maidens how to pray." ('Forward' Yiddish and English captions.)
 
Frame 27731: Click for full display
Date: 1920s
Location: Laskarzew
Photog: Kacyzne, Alter 
Description:
A woman teaches girls at a girls' `kheyder' (elementary school).
 
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Bobruisk
Photog: n/a 
Frame 45585: Click for full display
Description:
Vignetted studio portrait of Khane Dreir, an elderly woman wearing a 'shaytl' (wig), bonnet and spectacles: (written in Yiddish) "Khane the 'rebbetsin' (rabbi's wife)," who was known for her charitable works.
 
Frame 39246: Click for full display
Date:
Location: Galicia
Photog: n/a 
Description:
Two tombstones: (left) "Perl, wife of a rabbi and daughter of the rabbi of Zbaryz, 1811." (Right) "Honored, cherished, and respected, one of the leaders..."
 
Date: ca. WWI
Location: Russia
Photog: n/a 
Frame 27809: Click for full display
Description:
Studio portrait of Anna Sedlis, a Jewish nurse who served in the Russian army during the war with her husband, Elias, a medical doctor.
 
Frame 48907: Click for full display
Date: ca. 1930s
Location: Kaunas
Photog: n/a 
Description:
In the pediatrician's office at the Jewish Child's House: (l to r) a nurse feels a baby's glands; a shawled woman holds a baby on her lap and consults with a doctor who sits behind a desk. (From an album.)