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The Union organized a system of volunteers trained to help women seeking employment and to assist Jewish charitable institutions. Before World War I the UJW was composed primarily of upper-class women who had little contact with the working class women the organisation was created to help.
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voted against the franchise for women, though many of those individual synagogues had already agreed to support it. In order to be more effective, the UJW joined many women's organisations to promote further extension of
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The Union declared itself to be an "all-embracing sisterhood," forming a "bond between Jewish women of all degrees and all shades of opinion, religious, social and intellectual."
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created demand for services for this community. The UJW was formed to address issues that Jewish women faced through activism.
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Tananbaum, Susan L (2010). "Democratizing British-Jewish Philanthropy: The Union of Jewish Women (1902–1930)".
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The UJW was formed in 1902. Poor Russian Jewish immigrants settling in the
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and decided to organise the May 1902 Conference of Jewish Women.
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Barberis, Peter; McHugh, John; Tyldesley, Mike (2000-01-01).
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The UJW had mixed success; in 1924 the Council of the
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United Synagogue
women's suffrage
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Eleanor Nathan
Lady Louise De Rothschild
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Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century
ISBN
978-0-8264-5814-8
doi
10.2979/nas.2010.-.20.57
S2CID
144814550


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