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Jewish Working Women
P A G E 5
“My dad would buy cattle in the country that he would ship to the South Saint Paul stockyards and then call my mother and say, “cover the checks.”... Since the day they were married she was completely in charge of all financial arrangements.”
Manley Goldfine, letter, 1992. Fanny Overman completed a commercial course in high school. After marrying Abe Goldfine in 1922, she became his full business partner. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
“We dug more rocks on 320 acres than I think they dug in the whole Negev in Israel. We would work all day digging rocks, loading them on stone boats... I was almost a dropout in school because there were only certain days that I could go to school. I couldn't go on Monday because I had to help my mother wash clothes. I couldn’t go on Tuesday because we had to iron and bake. I would go Wednesday and Thursday, but Friday I had to stay out because we had to clean house and bake for the weekend.”
Celia Kamins, oral history, undated. Kamins grew up on a North Dakota farm in the 1910s. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
top photo: Fannie Goldfine, a Duluth businesswoman, posed for the groundbreaking ceremonies for her family-owned discount store, Duluth, MN, 1961. Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
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