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Jewish Homemakers Speak
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 “A woman would light the candles on Friday night. Just before she lit them she would put in a nickel and dime, whatever she could spare, and then once a year they went around and they collected these boxes and this was a good part of the money raising.”
Adeline Tenzer Fremland, oral history, 1974. Fremland grew up in St. Paul in the 1920s. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
“When anything would happen that was real good, she had a little blue box that she always put money in... When we were going away to college, I remember, she put a coin in when we went and when we got there; this was her way of being thankful or grateful that everybody was well.”
Ruth Merdler, oral history, 1982. Merdler, born in 1919, grew up in Hibbing, MN. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
“Now all my mother’s milchig dishtowels had blue embroidery and all the fleishig dishtowels had red embroidery, so you had no excuse for mixing them up... But once in a while they would mix them up anyway, and she would have a fit.”
Anne Rothenberg Zabel, oral history, 1994. The Rothenberg family lived in Sioux City, Iowa, in the early 1900s. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
top photo: A Hadassah member making her annual collection of money deposited in the blue-and-white pushke. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
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