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Lillian Wald : A Biography
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feld, Marjorie N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminists--New York (State)--New York.
- Feminists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Social reformers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Wald, Lillian D.
- Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940.
- Feminists.
- Social reformers--New York (State)--New York.
- Social reformers.
- Local Subjects:
- Feminists--New York (State)--New York.
- Feminists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Social reformers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Wald, Lillian D.
- Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Founder of Henry Street Settlement on New York's Lower East Side as well as the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Lillian Wald (1867-1940) was a remarkable social welfare activist. She was also a second-generation German Jewish immigrant who developed close associations with Jewish New York even as she consistently dismissed claims that her work emerged from a fundamentally Jewish calling. Challenging the conventional understanding of the Progressive movement as having its origins in Anglo-Protestant teachings, Marjorie Feld offers a critical biography of Wald in which she examines the cruci
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Claiming Lillian Wald; CHAPTER 1 Wald's Hometown Lessons: From Rochester to Manhattan; CHAPTER 2 The Woman at the Head of the Table: Negotiating Universalism and Difference at Henry Street; CHAPTER 3 Universal Peace and Brotherhood: Wald's Internationalist Vision; CHAPTER 4 The Society We Might Be Living In: Modern Challenges to an Ethnic Progressive Vision; CHAPTER 5 Windows Opened Upon a Moving World: New Deals and Old Faiths; Conclusion: She Is All Religions: Wald's Enduring Legacies; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M
- NO; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890881915
- 9781469606620
- 1469606623
- OCLC:
- 823170210
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