COHEN, WILBUR JOSEPH — (1913–1987), U.S. social welfare authority. Born in Milwaukee, the son of Jewish immigrants, Cohen left his home in the early 1930s to attend the University of Wisconsin. He served with the U.S. Committee on Economic Security in 1934 35 and… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE — (known as JDC or The Joint), independent, non political American Jewish relief and welfare organization dedicated to providing both emergency aid and long term assistance to individual Jews and Jewish communities throughout the world outside… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
CASPARY, EUGEN — (1863–1931), German social welfare pioneer. Born in Berlin, Caspary became one of the leading figures in the social welfare work of the German Jewish community during the first three decades of the 20th century. He evolved new methods for meeting … Encyclopedia of Judaism
FRIEDLANDER, WALTER — (1891–1984), U.S. social welfare expert and educator, born in Berlin. Friedlander was trained in law, began his career as a welfare worker among children, and later served as a juvenile court judge in Berlin. From 1931 to 1933 he was president of … Encyclopedia of Judaism
FUERTH, HENRIETTE — (1861–1938), German social worker. Fuerth was born in Katzenstein, Germany. Herself the mother of 11 children, she was one of the founders of the Mother s Welfare Movement, an organization which concerned itself with family and health problems… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
GINSBERG, MITCHELL I. — GINSBERG, MITCHELL I. (1915–1996), U.S. social worker and educator. Ginsberg, a native of Boston, received his B.S. (1937) and his M.A. in education and psychology (1938) from Tufts University and his M.S. in social work from Columbia University… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF JEWISH COM-MUNAL SERVICE — INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF JEWISH COM MUNAL SERVICE, international body originating as an informal gathering of Jewish social workers who attended the First International Conference of Social Work in Paris in 1928. The International Conference… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
LEVY, SAM SAADI — (1870–1959), journalist. Levy was born in salonika , but at an early age he went to live in Paris, returning in 1898 to Salonika, where he collaborated in the periodicals La Epoca (Judeo Spanish), founded in 1875, and Journal de Salonique… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
PERLMAN, HELEN HARRIS — (1905–2004), U.S. social work educator. Perlman, who was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, received a B.A. in English literature from the University of Minnesota in 1926. She worked for family and child guidance agencies in Chicago and New York (1927… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
SCHOTTLAND, CHARLES IRWIN — (1906–1995), U.S. social welfare expert. Born in Chicago, Schottland received a B.A. from UCLA in 1927; he received a social work certificate from the Graduate School of Social Work in the New York School of Social Work in 1929; and he graduated… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
