Mothering the "Hill"


 

Publication Date: March 1914

Publisher:

Author(s): Bertram Benedict

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Social Services; Arbitration

Type: Other

Coverage: Pennsylvania United States

Abstract:

The author tells the story of Anna B. Heldman, a nurse in the "Hill" neighborhood of Pittsburgh who has also come to serve as its unofficial sanhedrin (Jewish court), counseling and arbitrating domestic disagreements, as well as helping people negotiate the secular court system and serving as a coordinator of services.

In Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities 1913-1914, Baltimore, Vol.IV:11, ed. Lee F. Frankel.