Original Cloth. 8vo. 426 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Proceedings of the first convention of the National Council of Jewish Women: an organization which came into being as a result of the Congress of Jewish Women, one of the denominational congresses of the World's Parliament of Religions held at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
The sections are members of the city, county, and state federations of women's clubs, and are actively cooperative in all work for the public welfare. During the Spanish-American war the council within one week set its sections to work in aid of the soldiers and sailors, and in several places was the first organized body to take any steps for their relief. It raised ten thousand dollars in money an equal amount in goods, and a nurse was sent to the army; the members were, during the continuance of the war, among the most active workers in the service of relief. It cooperated with the National Red Cross Society, the regimental auxiliaries, and the various state organizations. Through the influence of the council, 72 women have been placed on Sabbath-school boards of congregations; interest in the schools has been greatly increased thereby, and, what is of signal importance, the age of confirmation, in a number of communities, has been raised. It maintains fifteen mission schools. The philanthropies of the council, numbering 85, are supported by voluntary subscription, and include settlements, clubs, libraries, free baths, night-schools, manual-training classes, household-schools, employment bureaus, penny provident funds, classes for crippled children, ice funds for consumptives, recreation-rooms, and gymnasiums. The following meetings have been held: first triennial, New York, Nov. , 1896; Omaha Exposition, Oct. , 1896; Chautauqua summer assembly, July, 1897, 1898; second triennial, Cleveland, March, 1900; first annual executive, New Orleans, La. , Feb. , 1901; third triennial, Baltimore, Md. , Dec. , 1902. The present officers, elected in 1900, are: president, Hannah G. Solomon; first vice-president (resigned) ; second vice-president, Babette Mandel, Chicago, Ill. ; recording secretary, Gertrude Berg, Philadelphia, Pa. ; corresponding secretary, Sadie American, New York city; treasurer, Bertha A. Selz, Chicago, Ill. It has (Nov. , 1902) 7, 000 members, in 70 sections; 15 junior sections, with 500 members; 89 study circles in religion, and 12 in philanthropy. - 1906 JE. Subjects: Jewish women - United States - Congresses. Jewish women. National Council of Jewish Women. National Council of Jewish Women. Conference proceedings. OCLC lists 29 copies. Institutional stamps on endpages and backstrip. Internal hinges repaired, otherwise clean and fresh. Good- condition. (WOMEN-1-20-D)
