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Jewish Working Women
P A G E 3
Education and service
Second-generation Jewish
women were eager to gain an education. When their families could afford it, they flocked to business schools, teachers’ schools, and colleges. Many became bookkeepers, teachers, and social workers. Others faced discrimination — as Jews and as women — in pursuing their careers. During World War II, more than one hundred Jewish women from the Upper Midwest served in the armed forces.
top photo: Dorothy Berman, Talmud Torah teacher, St. Paul, MN, 1931. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society.
inset photo, left: Gisela Konopka, Waco, TX, about 1950. Konopka, a professor of social work at the University of Minnesota from 1947 to 1978, conducted pioneering research on adolescent girls. Courtesy of Gisela Konopka, Minneapolis, MN.
inset photo, right: Violet Druck Jones cleaning barracks at Mitchell Field, Chicago, 1945. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
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