Annie Polland, “Midwives, Cooks, Palmists, and Housewives: Jewish Immigrant Women in the Tenements of NYC”
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FAYE GREENBERG SIGMAN "WOMAN OF VALOR" LECTURE In the 1900 manuscript census, husbands/fathers, teenage sons, and daughters are listed with occupations: tailors, butchers, peddlers, clerks, sewing machine operators. The majority of mothers/wives enumerated, however, have a blank in the occupation …