Address to West Central Jewish Working Girls’ Club

Lily Montagu

1916

Today for you all there is an opportunity more important than any that has ever before been given to you.

The boys out in France and Egypt are learning the value of their homes. We believe that they will have learned before they come home to expect more of girls and women. We must see to it that we do not fail them. If the standard of respect is to…

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Lily Montagu

1873–1963

Born in London, Lily Montagu was brought up in an Orthodox home. Her father was a successful banker, a member of the House of Commons, and later a Peer in the House of Lords as the first Baron Swaythling. Influenced both by the pious and politically connected aspects of her upbringing, Lily Montagu was active in social work and philanthropy. In 1902, along with Henrietta Franklin and Claude Montefiore, she helped form the Jewish Religious Union, which became a founding member-organization of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Montagu was also an active women’s suffragist in the United Kingdom, helping found the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage in 1912.

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