Correspondence, 1918.

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Correspondence, 1918.

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Letters, apparently written in 1918, though a few are undated, from Helen Schechter to Ellen T. Gould. Gould taught Schechter English at Christodora House, a settlement house on the Lower East Side. The letters discuss Schechter's frustration at not knowing English better, the education of her four children, and time at Camp Northover, the summer camp affiliated with Christodora House. They also describe her unrequited love for Gould, and her refusal to see these feelings as "sick" or as unreal idealization. Other subjects include the progress of the war, her lack of sexual feeling for men, and her loss of faith in Judaism, though she retained a belief in God and respected Gould's Christian faith. An undated letter gives a short autobiography describing her upbringing in Galicia and Budapest, followed by immigration to the United States and marriage there to a cousin.

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Camp Northover (Bound Brook, N.J.)

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Gould, Ellen T.

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Schechter, Helen, b. ca. 1886.

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Resident of New York City; of Eastern European Jewish origin, came to the United States at the age of eighteen. A widow by the date of the correspondence. From the description of Correspondence, 1918. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58771560 ...

Christodora House (New York, N.Y.)

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