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A cookbook for Jewish cooking put out by a Jewish women's organization of Dusseldorf. The cookbook contains recipes divided into the usual categories of soups, fish ,meats, desserts, etc.The introductory pages include a table of exchanges (e.g. how many teaspoons in a tablespoon, or how many portions per kilogram of fish, etc.) Following the indexare some pages for notes, as well as advertisements (some with illustrations).
As cooks sometimes do, two handwritten recipes [one on notepaper and one on the back of a bank deposit ticket] have been inserted between the covers.
Jüdischer Frauenbund (the League of Jewish Women, or JFB), organization of Jewish women founded in 1904 by Sidonie Werner and Bertha Pappenheim originally in order to combat white slavery, especially of Jewish girls from Eastern Europe. Under Pappenheim's energetic leadership the organization expanded rapidly and after 30 years of existence boasted 30,000 members in about 450 branches. Politically the organization was neutral: the women's organizations of the Central-Verein and B'nai B'rith were affiliated with it, whereas Orthodox and Zionist women's organizations were not. Its charitable agencies were concerned with adoption, social work, and health, and especially the Isenburg home for wayward women. In the Jewish communities the Frauenbund strove for full female suffrage in communal elections, and it received nominal representation in national and international forums. Bertha Pappenheim was succeeded by Hannah Karminski (1887–1943), who was deported and killed by the Nazis after the forced shutdown of the Juedischer Frauenbund in 1938 (refounded by Jeanette Wolff and Ruth Galinski in 1953). |
