The Philadelphia Fels, 1880-1920
Subtitle: a social portrait
By: Evelyn Bodek Rosen.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Fell family.; Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.; Jewish capitalists and financiers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.; Jews, German -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The Philadelphia Fels focuses on the philanthropic and civic energies of five siblings, children of German immigrants Lazarus and Susannah Fels, and two sisters-in-law who became multimillionaires by the manufacturing of what was for two generations the nation's most popular soap, Fels-Naptha. Once the family achieved financial success they devoted most of their lives and prodigious energies to Tzdedakah (charity as righteousness).

Though their involvements were national, and international, as well as local, their major contributions were made in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey. The Philadelphia Fels left a heritage of good works and social activism by pioneering in civic, fund-raising, educational, and progressive Jewish and secular movements."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-225) and index.