Skits and Speeches

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Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)

Dates

1935-2000 (indexed as 1935–2000)

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Includes copies of speeches given by Sophie A. Udin and Leah Biskin after the organization's first ten years.

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Skits and Speeches

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TEN YEARS OF GROWTHby SOPHIE A. UDIN(Founder)("The Pioneer Women" -- June, 1935)When in 1924 the beginnings of the Pioneer Women's Organization were laid, there was in the United States a profusion of women's clubs and organizations indicative of the range of women's interests and telling of the extent of their participation in all phases of communal life. But the leading incentive of these organizations was the need of self-improvement and the desire for self-growth. It is against this background that we comprehend the need for such a specific grouping as the Pioneer Women's Organization became...So that the Pioneer Women's Organization had incorporated at the beginning of its existence similarly to other women's groups the need for full participation in the world around them, overcoming through their own initiation the lack of political, social, economic and educational opportunities; but our organization had to revolutionize its haverot and bring them to a national consciousness rooted on the need for national rehabilitation and based on the principles of social justice. And thus the sources of our being as an organization were established...Our auto-emancipation implied new methods of activities. We were treading new paths where the usual leaders of women's groups or Zionist groups could not lead us. Our rank and file had to evolve the leadership. While on the other hand as our leading haverot sought self-realization they migrated to Palestine. However, our insistence on self-education and cultural activities in our groups was an educative process which evolved a new leadership. Likewise the auto-emancipation of the haverot in turn influenced the entire family group so that one of the greatest achievements in the decade of the Pioneer Women's Organization is the fact that many of the first halutzim from America came from the homes of our haverot, and their sons and daughters are the leaders of the youth of Labor Zionism.Our auto-emancipation was possible because we had as an educative example the working women of Palestine. This was our own inner force for with our Palestinian haverot we are welded into one entity united by similar ideology. They are merely today our vanguard. Tomorrow I or my children will join that vanguard. Our work is one and the same. The halutza has also shown us what true emancipation of women is. In Palestine she was able to demonstrate definitely that the deeper question of equality of women lies in the fact that she must have her equal share in the work of the community without neglecting her specific duties as a mother, nor limiting her participation in the creation of the nation.All these manifold influences have been incorporated into the life of the Pioneer Women's Organization. And at the passing of a decade we pause upon the soul of our organization, namely: the growth and self-development of the individual havera, her acceptance of the ideal of national freedom and the redemption of the Jews as a nation, this to be accomplished upon the basis of social reconstruction. In this lies our greatest force, it is this power which will continue to build our organization.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.

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