Israel's Missionary Society of San Francisco, California.
Biographical notes:
Israel's Missionary Society of San Francisco, founded circa 1910, was a women' s organization consisting of local Christian women interested in performing missionary work in the local Jewish population. The organization was founded by Jeanette Gedalius, who is described in the 1910 Annual Report of the American Bible Society as a "converted, consecrated Jewish worker" (175). Gedalius was born in Prussia, converted to Christianity at an early age, and immigrated to the United States. She worked as a missionary among the Jews in New York for 12 years and in San Francisco for 5 years.
From the description of Annual Report of Israel's Missionary Society of San Francisco, California, 1912. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 760205053
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- Proselytizing
- Women missionaries
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- California--San Francisco (as recorded)
