On May 15, 1902, Jewish housewives on the Lower East Side poured into the streets, breaking windows and throwing meat. The women were protesting a jump in the price of kosher meat from 12 to 18 cents a pound. https://buff.ly/RX7azPt To ensure solidarity, women patrolled the neighborhood. Canvassers traveled door-to-door to encourage neighbors to support the boycott. Home visits also allowed women to look into pots to make sure no secretly purchased meat was being cooked. Supporters picketed butcher shops. Sympathetic neighbors raised bail money for women who had been arrested. Fliers illustrated with skulls and cross bones warned: "Eat no meat while the Trust is taking meat from the bones of your women and children." Three weeks into the boycott, the price of kosher meat was lowered four cents. The boycott highlighted the ability of Jewish women to organize and coordinate a movement throughout the boroughs. 📷 Undated photo (1900s) of Mrs. Perlmutter and others outside store arguing price of meat, Brooklyn, NY. (fb)

You know we love a drama queen. Bertha Kalich was the first female actor to make the transition from the Yiddish to the English stage. Known for her great beauty and diction, Kalich performed 125 roles in seven languages and was a star of Yiddish theater in Europe before immigrating to the United States and rising to fame in American Yiddish theater and mainstream films, plays, and radio shows. She died #ThisWeekInHistory in 1939. https://buff.ly/ceQkW0V (fb)