Name: Annie Polland, “Midwives, Cooks, Palmists, and Housewives: Jewish Immigrant Women in the Tenements of NYC”
Start: 2026-11-03T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-11-03T20:15:00-06:00

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November 2026
Annie Polland, “Under One Roof: German, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Chinese, Black, and Puerto Rican Stories”

November 2 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Lubar Entreprenership Center, Room 221

New York City's Tenement Museum is unique among historic homes for its social history approach, and its focus on immigrant and migrant families who never imagined they would become the subjects of a museum exhibition. It is also relatively unique, …
Annie Polland, “Midwives, Cooks, Palmists, and Housewives: Jewish Immigrant Women in the Tenements of NYC”

November 3 @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm

Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center or via Zoom

Hybrid Event

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 …

November 2026