Proceedings of the National Conference of Jewish Charities and of Jewish Social Service. 7 items in 2 cloth slipcases.
Proceedings Of The National Conference Of Jewish Charities
And Of Jewish Social Service
[Judaica]. Second Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States. Detroit, Michigan. May 26th to 28th, 1902. Cincinnati, Ohio: C. J. Krehbiel & Co., 1902.
Tall 8vo.; fold-out chart of “Orphan Asylums” tipped in; black cloth, front panel mildewed, a few spots to rear panel, extremities somewhat bumped and frayed, upper tips a bit chipped.
Together with:
Fourth Biennial Session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States. Held in the city of Philadelphia. May 6th to 8th, 1906. New York: Stettiner Bros., 1907.
Tall 8vo.; top edge lightly darkened; black cloth, stamped in blind, extremities bumped with a few chips, small dent to back panel.
Together with:
Fifth Biennial Session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States. Held in the city of Richmond. May 4th to 6th, 1908. Baltimore: Kohn & Pollock, 1909.
Tall 8vo.; black cloth, extremities bumped, discrete dent to rear top edge.
Together with:
Sixth Biennial Session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States. Held in the city of St. Louis. May 17th to 19th, 1910. Baltimore: Kohn & Pollock, 1910.
Tall 8vo.; blue cloth, extremities lightly bumped, a few stains to both panels.
Together with:
Seventh Biennial Session of the National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States. Held in the city of Cleveland. June 9 to 12, 1912. Baltimore: Kohn & Pollock, 1913.
Tall 8vo.; fold-out table on Palestinian Charities tipped in; pages faintly browned; blue cloth, extremities lightly bumped.
Together with:
Proceedings of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service. Including Joint Sessions with National Association of Jewish Center Executives and National Council for Jewish Education. At the Annual Sessions. Lake Placed, N. Y. June 15-18, 1935. New York: The National Conference of Jewish Social Service and The Jewish Social Service Quarterly, 1935.
Tall 8vo.; frontispiece photograph of conference president; pastedowns and endpapers browned, Los Angeles Jewish Community Library stamp on endpapers and edges; green cloth, spine rubbed, extremities lightly bumped.
Together with:
Proceedings of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service. Including Joint Sessions with National Association of Jewish Center Executives and National Council for Jewish Education. At the Annual Sessions. Atlantic City, N. J. May 30-June 2, 1936. New York: The National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare and The Jewish Social Service Quarterly, 1936.
Tall 8vo.; green cloth; spine bumped, small dent to front fore-edge.
Seven volumes (in two cloth slipcases) that gracefully chart the many transitions over thirty-four years in Jewish charitable organizations. When the National Conference of Jewish Charities was first convened in 1899, the leaders were not professional social workers—indeed, the profession barely existed at the time—but philanthropists looking to improve their benevolent undertakings. One of these was Stephen S. Wise, an extremely influential American rabbi and Zionist credited with many reforms; he was also active in social welfare, and the 1906 Proceedings is his copy, with his bookplate to the front pastedown and docketed by him on the verso.
The Constitution printed at the opening of each of the first five Proceedings lays out the conference’s purpose:
Article II.—Objects. The objects of this association are to discuss the problems of charities and to promote reforms in their administration; to provide uniformity of action and cooperation in all matters pertaining to the relief and betterment of the Jewish poor of the United States, without, however, interfering in any manner with the local work of any constituent society.
Each organization would pay dues based on the size of their budget, between $5 and $50 per year. These supp
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