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.