Intermountain Jewish news., 1925-10-15
Women Pioneers Do
: Mems Labor in th.e:
New jeuish Colonies
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mirrors and Ihaiio seem lost, sees ID |
congruonfy grotesdue 6uti there in, the
mud hufs or In ne barracks, ,whcre
under the most assaliak conditions,
several families live under one roof
and in one room and where all of ones
household belongings are heaped up
over ones head. These mirrors and
such pianos are just household nuis-
ances and the good wife wonders how
Oh earth she will ever he rid of them.
But when ON the other hand 1t did
not cost so much to transport them
owing TO the REDUCED railroad freights
and--"who knows, maybe we will be
able. Ito use these things solsetime.r
Speaking eenerally, the Jewish
! woman is quickly absorbed In the new
life--much more rapidly than anyone
could have anticipated. Most of the
women worked very hard back in tie
old towns Most OF them carried the
family yoke hara work is not new
10 them 1t has no terrors for them.
Some of the women are better equipped
J for. 1t than many cf the men among
the pioneers. There are. of course. a
large number who are performing
I physical labor for the first time In
1 thelr lives. But tire housewife, the
young girls. tine students, the enc time
clerks. and bookkeepers and typists
have also adapted themselves to the
new life They work in the fields as
IL they were born ito their jobs-better
wcrk with their brains as well as with
their muscles.
/. Intbe colony "rohycdo" (Victory) in
the trimea. ! talked with II group Of
Jewish women aud girls who were
working ont in the fields One of them
was y Young woman who had acquired
n I1eparutioii in KieE rs singer. ]
made it snappy because she was too
busy for chatter
How goes it, sea.
''f'inc-tliank you for asking
How long are you out here"
-Four months"
h Did YOU find 1t hard at The be-
ginningy' ...
Hard" All spoke mp in chorus
''Our backs broke, we ached from head
to foot"
And nowT'
/ Used to it." .....
one of the group chimes in with
sigh: .-..... ..
IF we only had enough to eat. 1t
is going TO take some time before we
As u matter of fact the women pre-
fer the field to the kitchen, such kitch-
chs. makeshift stove out On the mid
Ole Of the field. There they try TO bake
bread. -.2 u-I ...
! Even that is done collectively Every
thing is done collcctivcly-one pot and
kettle for all, so ne favorite dishes can
be prepared. Except perhaps for the
Sabbath For that day the rules of the
collective" do not apply ON that day
everyone lives his own individual life
and celebrates his holiday as he
plcascS. i'f.'.|
The difficult problem of the com
munity kitchen is being solved ;ls
homes 90 up The Joint Distribution
committee has begun the erection Of
thirteen hundred one family houses,
mostly of clay, very much like the clay
houses in Egypt. The women do their
share in the building of these houses.
Make the clay, cut the straw, and mix
the two so that they get II material
strong enough for building purposes
4 number of these houses have been
completed. The others nre gcing up
very rapidly but harvesting The crop,
and doing the chores delays the build
ing of the houses. So. large number
of them must still endure The hard
ship of the community kitchen
That's the life of the Jewish woman
in the colonies IN the Russian Stcppe.
Ia You wonder She wants home Of