Jewish Women Arguably Did More
from American Women During World War II: An Encyclopedia, Weatherford, p243
Jewish women did more
practical activities to alleviate
suffering -- at the 1893 World's Fair,
Hannah composed a little wartime discussion
WE WERE SILENT WHEN WE SHOULD
HAVE SHOUTED.
Many men chose amulets, eating ham
for Uncle Sam, choke down
the breakfast bacon.
From women came the do-it-yourself
seder kit, intimate ritual, a public war.
Travelers tiny, Jewish women give coffee and sugar
to strangers
goose fat, sour cream and yogurt
wine and other parts of their European habits,
unrationed.
Silk stockings, an impossible song:
Dorothy, Rose, Belle. Lady Eleanor
whose husband hid.
Ethel.
Ethel.