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Life Outside the Jewish Home
Jewish women’s responsibilities extended beyond the home to the spheres of work, synagogue and voluntary organizations. In these sections you can learn about what opportunities they found for themselves, what they changed, and what they created.
photo, left The Martz Hat Shop, Lead, North Dakota, about 1900. Courtesy of Etta Fay Orkin, Minneapolis, MN.
photo, top right: Women of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah auxiliary planning a kosher dinner dance benefit, 1952. All the food was homemade. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
photo, bottom right: B’nai Israel Congregation women’s auxiliary preparing a Sabbath dinner, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, about 1950. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
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