My Club and I.
[Judaica]. Montagu, Lily H. My Club and I. The Story of the West Central Jewish Club. London: Herbert Joseph Limited, (1941).
8vo.; “Boots Booklovers Library” slip affixed to rear pastedown and sticker attached to front cover; blue cloth, some staining and discoloring to front; spine bumped.
First edition. In My Club and I, Lily Montagu (b. 1874) tells the story of one of her early projects—the West Central Jewish Club, the equivalent of American Settlement Houses. The “spiritual figure” of social work, she was given an honorary degree by Hebrew Union College in 1929 and the “Order of the British Empire” in 1937 for her organizing among working girls. In addition to being involved with a number of women’s organizations, Montagu was also one of the founders, and the first lay preacher, of the Jewish Religious Union which was concerned with adapting Jewish ritual to modern life. As a progressive and liberal Jew, she spoke throughout the world, administering an international conference on liberal Judaism in 1926. The Club itself grew out of a Sabbath class, in 1893, and despite differing views on religious observance, remained centered around Judaism until the building was destroyed in 1941 by the bombing of London. The impact this untrained woman had on the girls drawn to her club for educational, social, artistic, and religious occasions is evinced by what they called her: “Mother.”
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