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Friday, October 12, 1923. THE HEBREW STANDARD. Page SevenUnion of Jewish WomenA council meeting of the Union of Jewish Women, with which the Sydney Hebrew Ladies’ Maternity and Benevolent Society (the oldest women’s association in Australia) is affiliated was held recently in London, to hear the rcporis of the delegates of the Union of Jewish Women and the Jewish Association for the protection of Girls and Women to the World Congress of Jewish Women in Vienna. The ladies of the Council of the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women were also invited.Mrs. Eichhoiz stated that just over £1000 had been collected for the Union of Jewish Women’s Jewish War Victim’s Kitchen Fund, and two kitchens had been opened.Tb« President then proceeded to state that Mrs. Kohut, chairman of the Congress, had been unable to come to London and to speak at that meeting, as she had promised, having been unexpectedly recalled to New York. The Congress in Vienna had been very wonderful. It had been called by the American Council of Jewish Women as a result of thework they had been doing in Eastern Europefor the last two or three years. The xar and persecution had forced great numbers of Jews to leave their homes. Large numbers of these wished to settle in America, and the American Council of Jewish Women had sent a unit to study on the spot, problems presented by this emigration. As this work affected all countries. the American Council of Jewish Women had felt the necessity of summoning a World Congress of Jewish Women to discuss problems and to promote co-ordination in work. Ninety delegates had attended from 20 different countries, and to these were added many ladies as visitors, and men who were experts on the subjects to be discussed The delegates had been warmly welcomed by the president of the Austrian Republic and his mother, and no trace of anti-Semitism had been shown during the whole period of the Congress. The speeches had been on a very high level, among the most striking being those of Frl. Bertha Pappenhcim, Frau Anita Muller Cohen and Frau Eschelbacher. The subjects discussed at the Congress were:(1) Problems of emigration and the transmigrant.12) Child welfare and maternity work.(3) Public health and sanitary measures.(4) Protection of girls and women.(5) Religious education.Various sub-committces were formed. • the •work being very wide in its scope. Problem* were found on the whole to be similar in •every country, but the degree of suffering varied greatly. Many resolutions had been passed, but these had unfortunately not yet come to hand. A resolution of great importance was to be placed before the council at the end of the meeting, which concerud the formation of a World Council of Jewish Women.Mr*. SpMman spoke on the care of orphans and religious education. She quoted extracts from the paper read by Mrs. Eicholz. dealing with the different aspects of religious teaching in different countries. In England there was the danger of lapse from the Jewish faith due to the intercourse between Jew and non-Jew. She urged the need for greater consideration in religious life of the girls, and saw a safeguard in systematic religious instructionPassing to the question of child welfare, Mrs. Spielman said that, as a result of pogroms and famine, death had been rampant among the Jewish children in the Ukraine, and among the survivors, if uucared for, begging or prostitution offered the only means of livelihood. She had visited institutions in Vienna where children were being cared for, and which were run on the most modern lines. She gave special praise to the work oi Frau Anita Muller Cohen, to whose initiative was due the founding of 30 different institutions.Mrs. MoM spoke of the wonderful inspiration for future work which the Congress had provided. She mentioned resolutions passed for the protection of derelict Jewish women and children stranded on foreign soil. Some homes had been founded for the care of friendless and illegitimate cRildren, the object being to keep the child within the Jewish community.Mr. S. CoWn spoke on the traffic in girls and women. He spoke of the splendid work done in this connection by Frl. Bertha Pappenhcim, who had spent her life in working for this cause. Closely bound up with the question of the traffic was the protection of migrants. Experiences were given by workers at ports, railway stations, etc., and these accounts were most moving. He touched on the question of marriages in Russia and Poland, and stated that a resolution had been passed in the same terms as that passed at the International Conference in 1910.Uuestions were then invited.MIm Hamdi asked if the name of the society for the amelioration of the legal position of the Jewess might lc associated with the question of illegal marriages, and was informed that all resolutions were passed in the name of the Congress as a whole.Mrs. EsUr, representative of the Federation of Women Zionists, asked if the resolution on Palestine could l»e read, and was informed that the resolutions had not yet come to hand.Mrs. Eichhoiz then read the following resolution front the chair:That the World Congress of Jewish Women held in Vienna, having accepted the principle of the formation of a World Council of Jewish Women, this meeting of the Council of the Union of Jewish Women pledges itself to co-operate with other *lt;%un-tries in establishing such a world council Lady Nathan seconded this resolution, which was carried unanimously.Mr. Moro congratulated Mrs. Eichhoiz and Mrs. Spielman on their work in Vienna and said that, speaking as an individual, and not as a member of the Council of the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women. he was quite in favour of co-operation in the formation of a World Council of Jewish Women.Mr*. 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Sydney Hebrew Standard of Australasia
Sydney, New South Wales, AU
Fri, Oct 12, 1923
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