Frieda and Saul Shapira photographs, 1966-1967 [photographs]
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Shapira, Frieda, 1914-2003
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Frieda (F.S.) and Saul Shapira (S.S.), members of one of the five founding families of the Giant Eagle retail grocery business, were active members of the boards or advisory committees of a wide array of nonprofit and philanthropic organizations dedicated to Jewish causes as well as to civil rights, special education, interfaith relations, women's rights, and poverty. From the 1960s until her death in 2003, F.S. sat on the board or committees of nearly twenty organizations. Her husband S.S. was ...
National Council of Jewish Women. Pittsburgh Section
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The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) was founded in 1893 at the Jewish Women's Congress of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Mrs. Pauline Rosenberg founded the Pittsburgh Section in 1894 and this became the fourth section of NCJW. The Pittsburgh Section was called the Columbian Council until May 1906. The Pittsburgh Section has been devoted to many activities at the local, state, and national levels. Activities have included fundraising, education, political and social reforms, worksho...
Barr, Joseph M., 1906-1982
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Born in Pittsburgh in 1906 to a large family, Joseph M. Barr started his career as a salesman in Pittsburgh. In 1940 he became the state's youngest state senator. His career in Harrisburg roughly coincided with David L. Lawrence's reign as Pittsburgh mayor. Barr was instrumental in being Pittsburgh's advocate and used his tenure to push through many of the local reforms needing state help. In 1959 Barr, the consummate Harrisburg insider, and Lawrence, the seasoned Pittsburgh mayor, essentially s...
