Jewish Criterion (Feb. 10, 1950)
Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project

The Hillel Academy Women’s Club was founded around 1948 as an auxiliary to Hillel Academy day school, which had been founded the previous year. The club raised funds to support Hillel Academy and held social and cultural gatherings for its members.

The Hillel Academy Women’s Club published a bulletin called “The Recorder” by the 1950s, operated a gift shop within the school for many years, and published a cookbook “The Ta’am of Your Life” in 1975. Its activities appear to have slowed in the early 1980s, around the time of the death of Rebbitzin Poupko, who was one of its founders.

Bibliography

Rauh Jewish Archives

Collections
  • Hillel Academy Records [MSS 374] (catalog record).
  • “Milestone” (Hillel Academy yearbook) (1971, 1975, 1977-1978, 1986-1988, 1992) (catalog record).
  • The Hillel Academy Women’s Club “Recorder” (1954-1961) (catalog record).
  • Hillel Academy annual dinner (catalog record).
  • “The Ta’am of Your Life” cookbook, Hillel Academy Women’s Club, 1975 [TX724 .T32 1975 d] (catalog record).
Newsletter
  • August 16, 2020 newsletter (online).

University of Pittsburgh Archives & Special Collections

Oral histories
  • Evelyn Glick Bloom oral history-1998, from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online).
  • Evelyn Glick Bloom oral history-1998, from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online).
  • Chantze Butler oral history-1995, from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online).
  • Pauline Milch oral history-1977, from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online).
  • Pauline Milch oral history-1977, from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online).
  • Ida Notov oral history-1987, from National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh Section Records [AIS1664.40] (online).

Exhibit History

  • Author: Eric Lidji
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