The organization began at a meeting at the home of Dr. James Horowitz, who had been an active participant in the Underground Railroad and was a volunteer surgeon during the Civil War. Among those present were Isaac Glauber; Mathias Buchman, Alexander Buchman, Herman Peskin, Marcus Feder, Sr., and Joseph Metzenbaum. Called the Hebrew Immigrant Aid […]

The group merges with the Hebrew Relief Organization to become Hebrew Relief Association, intending “not to pauperize, but to foster and maintain self-respect of the poor.”

The president of the HRA strongly condemned local money lenders who extorted enormous rates of interest from the poor and asked the legislature to pass a law to prevent it. Dr. Steiner, the association’s physician, made 1800 calls to the sick. He indicated that sickness could be avoided through good clothing and good food. He […]