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Esther Loeb Kohn

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Esther Loeb Kohn · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

Esther Loeb Kohn helped bridge the gap between Chicago’s volunteer and professional social workers and spent thirty years running the Hull House settlement whenever founder Jane Addams was away on her frequent travels.

When

12 January 1875

Biography

Esther Loeb Kohn is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Esther Loeb Kohn helped bridge the gap between Chicago’s volunteer and professional social workers and spent thirty years running the Hull House settlement whenever founder Jane Addams was away on her frequent travels.

How & why

Esther Loeb Kohn helped bridge the gap between Chicago’s volunteer and professional social workers and spent thirty years running the Hull House settlement whenever founder Jane Addams was away on her frequent travels. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Paula F. Pfeffer, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Paula F. Pfeffer

Contributions & Sources

Esther Loeb Kohn helped bridge the gap between Chicago’s volunteer and professional social workers and spent thirty years running the Hull House settlement whenever founder Jane Addams was away on her frequent travels.

1875

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Paula F. Pfeffer