Sarah Zarrow Lectures on the Joint and Women’s Vocational Education: Handicrafts Workshops for Jewish Girls, 1920s Lwów

In this lecture, Sarah Zarrow, a recipient of the 2022 Fred and Ellen Lewis/JDC Archives Fellowship discusses the Female Vocational School of the Handicrafts Workshops for Jewish Girls founded in Lwów in 1919, in the wake of the Great War, with a subvention from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC or the “Joint”). Like many similar JDC-funded schools across Eastern Europe, the school taught practical skills, above all garment-making, in order to alleviate poverty and rehabilitate the Jewish communities of former East Galicia.

This lecture is made possible thanks to the Miriam “Mimi” Pasternak Toubin (z”l) Public Educational Programming from the JDC Archives.