THE COUNCIL COOKBOOK (COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN: SAN FRANCISCO); *Numerous recipes and clippings pasted in
San Francisco, CA: Council of Jewish Women: San Francisco Section, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original publisher's brown cloth binding, with black lettering to front cover. Printed on cheap paper, browning throughout. Both front and rear endpapers and 34 of the 200 pages have recipes -- handwritten in several hands, typewritten, or clipped from newspapers -- pasted in- often over some of the many advertisements, but occasionally right over recipes which the owners and users of this book must have thought they'd never make, or judging from the relationship between some of the recipes originally printed and the one pasted over, thought theirs to be superior. In essence a combination Cookbook and Scrapbook. Good. Item #84961
In 1893, Chicago resident Hannah G. Solomon was asked to organize the participation of Jewish women in the Chicago World's Fair. When she discovered that their intended role was merely to serve as hostesses, pouring coffee, etc., she and her recruits walked out. Building on the years of previous volunteer work she'd been doing, Solomon and her accompanying delegation of women founded the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW). Inspired by Hannah Solomons movement, Hattie Hecht Sloss of San Francisco convened a group of women at her synagogue -- Temple Emanu-El -- and along with 157 women, became charter members of the San Francisco section. In each succeeding decade the NCJW of San Francisco has prioritized the most pressing issues of the moment -- from providing for the needs of imnmigrant women and children in the early 1900s, to more recent struggles combating human trafficking, promoting equal pay for women,voting rights, advocating for a fair and independent judiciary, immigrant rights and protecting reproductive health, rights and justice (excerpted and paraphrased from NCJWSF page).
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