Date of Award
Fall 1986
Document Type
Restricted Thesis
Terms of Use
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Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History Department
Abstract
With the use of primary sources such as letters, autobiographical writings, and case files from the Young Women’s Union, Rose analyzes the complex relationships between German-Jewish immigrant women and social workers in South Philadelphia. Focusing on the case files specific to 1910-1911 and 1915-1916, she draws out a meaning of “true womanhood” as defined by the interactions between these immigrant women and social workers. She also interprets her sources through feminist concepts, weighing a women’s movement that focuses too much on motherhood with one that overlooks it. In doing so she brings the stories and conflicts of these Jewish immigrants in the early twentieth century to the present day.
Recommended Citation
Rose, Elizabeth , '87, "World of Our Mothers: Jewish Immigrant Women, Families, and Social Workers: A Study of the Case Files of the Young Women's Union of Philadelphia" (1986). Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards. 524.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/theses/524