Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York

269: 27: 238: 249: 295: 280: 366:, the mobs came to the very street where the orphanage was, but did not attack it, unlike the Colored Children's Orphan Asylum. In November 1863 the orphanage moved to a purpose-built home on East 77th Street near Third Avenue. In the orphanage, girls were taught domestic skills, while the boys were taught shoemaking and printing; the orphanage's printshop produced a magazine, 408:(established 1912), which, unlike the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, was not a large institutional building but a group of cottages in a rural area. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum decided to rebuild on the cottage system on land that it owned in the Bronx; it would raise money to do this by selling the orphanage to the 388:

Between 1860 and 1919, some 13,500 children were admitted to the home. Few children, however, were adopted, since most were actually half-orphans, members of a family which one parent (usually the father) had deserted and which the surviving parent could not support. The asylum was used, in effect,

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In 1915 the Child Welfare Act was passed, which granted allowances to widows. Within two years the orphanage population in the city shrank by 3,000 children as women became able to care for their children. By 1920 the orphanage was losing its position to the Pleasantville Cottage School

460:, under the name the "Hebrew Home for Boys." The protagonist hates the poor food, strict rules, and the bullying, and nicknames the place the "Hopeless House of Beggars" and the "Hell Hole for Brats." The author's father attended the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. 396:. The building cost $ 750,000 (including the land), and $ 60,000 a year to operate. The building eventually had a capacity of 1,755 children. It was self-sufficient enough that it was able to survive for a week on its own after it was cut off during the 903:(formerly called the Jewish Child Care Association), successor organization to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York; also includes pages on the history of Jewish child welfare organizations in New York City 361:

in 1860 with several dozen boys and girls. On each holiday the children were taken to a different synagogue, to placate the different brands of Judaism of the sponsoring organizations. During the

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The practice of holding annual dinners ceased, but the Hebrew Benevolent Society did establish an orphanage, which opened in a rented three story brickhouse on Lamartine Place (now West 29th Street) in

400:. After a dysentery outbreak in 1898, caused by impurities in the city's water supply, left seven children dead, the building installed its own water filtration system. During the 221: 329:

galvanized the group to establish an orphanage. A dinner held in December 1858 raised $ 10,000 (equivalent to $ 352,000 in 2023). At the dinner, conflict broke out between

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In 1884 the Hebrew Benevolent Society constructed a large building at Amsterdam Avenue, between 136th and 138th Streets, in the Modern Renaissance style, designed by

378:. In 1874 the organization renamed itself the "Hebrew Benefit Society and Orphan Asylum," and agreed to accept $ 110 a year in public funds to care for each orphan. 317:

Jews to take care of Jewish orphans. Conflicts between the two groups, however, delayed the creation of an orphanage for nearly forty years. In 1858, the

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concluded that children thrive better in foster care or small group homes, rather than in large institutions. The successor organization is the

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