by Shelly Tenenbaum

Buying Chickens, Paying Bills: Jewish Women’s Loan Societies

The ways we were

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Eva, a widow with six children, needed a loan to buy chickens for her poultry business. Esther, married to a Hebrew teacher, sought $200 to purchase machines for her gym and bathhouse. Clara, a peddler who was married with three children, needed capital for her line of trade. Mary, separated from her husband and a mother of five, required merchandise for her electrical supplies store.

Summer 1991

Five happy zealots changing the world. Depression-era microfinance by and for women. A turn-of-the-century Persian Jewish wedding.

Buying Chickens, Paying Bills: Jewish Women’s Loan Societies

by Shelly Tenenbaum

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Hair and all its complications • Raising feminist boys today • Tipping, service work and our changing world • A hot new Yiddish star • Taking off my wedding ring

Winter 2019-2020

DNA secrets, hidden identities • Breast cancer and Jewish women • Tillie Olsen: feminist foremother • At her ritual haircut, she knew she was a girl • The first lady of lox

Fall 2019

#MeToo stories • Jewish women and breast cancer: crisis, intimacy, recovery • Jennifer Weiner on “chick lit’s” power • Suddenly, period positivity • A feminist Jew’s tough search for holiness in community.

Summer 2019

Jewish women and addiction. 1960s & 70s feminism roars back, trendy again. Transforming Jewish life in small-town Maine. Choosing to be Jewish–thus feeling perpetually “the stranger.” Food writing by women that changes the entire culture. She redefines the meaning of Jewish art.

Buying Chickens, Paying Bills: Jewish Women’s Loan Societies

The ways we were

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