The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-14

Are women of the Hebrew race keep ing up with. their brothers in aspira- tton and achievement in the free United States. where all have op hty! They have not done so hI,--.,J. but the next fifteen years will ten a differ- ent story. The Oriental idea of domes- tic seclusion of women tinged the Jews blood sufficiently to require sev- eral generations of the light of Western liberty to bleach 1t out of him. JewisL women, although no less gifted intel lectually than their men, staid at home. reared large families of children. look ed after the poor, lived handsomely, wore pretty clothes. and thought they fulfilled the whole duty of woman.
 There are consequently comparatively few women of the race at present known to fame in professional life in this country. They have achieved sue cess in the musical and theatrical world for the splendid musical and dramatic gifts of the Jew could not be smoothered out even in woman. MISS Sadie American. a leading organizer and the corresponding secretary of the noble Jewish Council of Women, tells nie that among the present girl stu dents of her people, young women 16 to 20 years of age. are hundreds. not to say thousands. of doctors. lawy CTS. sci entists. college professors .nd artists in. the bud. for the new woman wave has at last struck the American Jew ess, and struck her powerfully.
 The Jewish Council of Women itself is g. noteworthy organization, remark able as being, outside of charity and benevolent societies, the first effort to- ward united work on the part of the women of the Hebrew race. The coun- ell Is. like so many other societies in America If nent of religions at the Worlds F air in 1883. Following that parliament, some Jewish ladies who contemplated their faith. their race and their history and were not ashamed calls sd a meeting te organize a permanent union of wo- men similarly minded. Their object was not that woman's club idea which has so run to seed in the United States. but work. solid work--namely, the study of Jewish religion and history, with philanthropic enSeavor for uni versal social betterment. A history of the Jewish religion Is the story of the religions of the world, for 1t Is the foundation of all those adhered to to- day among civilized peoples. The ma- jestic old chant which has been ringing in the synagogue since the dawn of his- tory--"Hear. o Israeli The Lord Our God. the Lord, is One"-is echoed today lFUlll CuIlSlldu CHuIChcS III tiS Aahos aud tongues of civilization.
 Jewish religion is from the beginning inextricably interwoven with Jewish history and with the wars and idola- tries of all the ancient world. So 1t vas no light task the members of the council set themselves. Among topics for study I find such as these: What Was and Is the Messianic Idea Among the Jews?" Persian and Egyptian Las fiuence on Jewish Religious Develop mant.' Was the Victory of the Mac cabees. Which Repellej Greeek Civili- zation. Gain or Loss to the Jews?" The Practical Side of Return to Pal estine." In the lists of papers read be- fore Christian women's clubs recently have found none so interesting as these, none requiring so much serious, scholarly research.
 The president of the Jewish Council of Women has been from the start Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon of Chicago, an able and enthusiastic servant of the organi- zation. The same may be said of Miss Gertrude Berg. recording secretary, and Miss Sadie American, corresponding secretary Miss American was dele- gate from the society to the interna- tional council of women in London last year. There she spoke so eloquently and movingly that the Jewish women of England were impelled to start an organization of their own after the model of the American society. Be- sides her council work, Miss American, like so many other ladies of her race. devotes herself to philanthropic labor, alike for Jew and gentle. Much of the success of the famous model permanent vacation school and playground scheme of Chicago is due to her never failing enthusiasm and effort in it's behalf.
 It might be expected that the first entrance of the Jewish woman into general professional life would be as medical practitioner. and this is the case. In a paper published in The Home of Delight Annual and written by Miss Gertrude Berg I find that, ex- cluding teachers there are some 300 Jewish women in professional life in the United States. and that 63 of these are physicians, and so are trained nurses.
 Some of the medical ladies have Aat- talned first rank both financially and As practitioners. Among them may be mentioned pr. Josephine Walters. lcng an attendant physician at the Mount Sinai Hospital New York. She IS at present consulting physician to the New York Infirmary. Other prominent physicians are Dr. Mary Jacobi, pr. Bertha F. LubitE and Dr. Sarah Welt, also of New York city; pr. Rosa Engel- mann of Chicago, Dr. Rebecca Fleisch- er..Dr. E. Levi and Dr. Anna Wilner of Philadelphia and Dr. Annabel Cone of Baltimore Several of these ladies de- rive from their practice incomes from s 900 to $10,00s a year. Dr. Yarros is another distinguished woman physi- clan.
 Miss Berg's list of Jewish professipn- al women in America she declares to he by no means complete. but l find there mentioned eight woman lawyers, one of these, who is becoming distin- guished. is Miss Rosalie Loew. in prac- flee in New York. Miss Loew was the first president of the Women Lawyers club of that city. Her father Is law yer and is proud of his professional Isu1hter. I find also that there are 27 Jewish women Journalists in Miss Pers's list, 3 chemists and 13 dentists
 In science and srt they age beginning the recdrd. Jessica Peixotto received