Oral histories, 1991-1994.

Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring

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The Workmen’s Circle (Arbeiter Ring), founded in 1892, became a national order in 1900. It was established as a social and cultural Jewish labor fraternal order. Its purpose was to provide members with mutual aid and health and death benefits and to support the labor and socialist movements of the world. Historically, the Workmen’s Circle was closely tied to Jewish unions, the Yiddish labor press, and the Socialist Party. The Circle was highly dedicated to raising the education levels of members...

Lower East Side Oral History Project.

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The Lower East Side Oral History Project is an ongoing series of interviews about immigrant life and work on the Lower East Side, many of them jointly sponsored by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, or by Henry Street Settlement House. Thirty-nine interviews were conducted by NYU graduate students in courses taught by Rachel Bernstein in the History Department; another 54 interviews were done by volunteers from the Workmen's Circle who participated in a Lower East Side...

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

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Bernstein, Rachel Amelia, 1953-

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Henry Street Settlement (New York, N.Y.)

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The Henry Street Settlement was organized in 1893 by Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster in New York City's Lower East Side neighborhood. Miss Wald and Miss Brewster were nurses and the settlement's early work was principally a visiting nurse service. By the time the settlement was incorporated in 1903, its work had expanded to include many of the usual settlement services. Miss Wald was succeeded as headworker in 1933 by Helen Hall. In 1944, the settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service were legally...