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RARE \"Jewish Immigrant Advocate\" Cecilia Razovsky Hand Signed TLS:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Jewish Immigrant Advocate" Cecilia Razovsky Signed TLS. 

4, 1891 – September 27, 1968) was a Jewish American social worker and activist

for immigrants in the US. Razovsky was born on May 4, 1891 to immigrant parents

Jonas and Minna (Meyerson) Razovsky in St. Louis, Missouri. She worked several jobs in order to help support her

family including sewing buttons on overalls in a factory at the age of 12 and

working as salesgirl, waitress, laundress, stenographer, clerk, and secretary.

At the age of 18 she began teaching immigrants at night at the Jewish

Educational Alliance in St. Louis. She was educated at Washington University, St.

Louis (1911), the Corliss School of Law (1912), the St. Louis

School of Economics (1913), and the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy

(1919). Additionally, she attended graduate classes in sociology at the University of Chicago.

 In 1911 she began working for the

St. Louis Board of Education as an attendance officer. In 1917 she moved

to Washington D.C. and

became and become an inspector in the child labor division of the United States

Children’s Bureau. She worked there until 1920. Razovsky

become the Executive Secretary of the National Council of Jewish Women in 1921. She served as

secretary for the immigrant aid department from 1920 to 1932, and became

associate director in 1932. Razovsky represented the NCJW as a delegate to

the First World Conference of Jewish Women in Vienna in 1932 where she spoke in

immigration restrictions in the United States. Razovsky also worked on

immigration issues for a number of other organizations including the National

Conference of Social Work from 1926 to 1929, Conference on Immigration Policy

in 1928, executive director of the National Coordinating Committee for Aid to

Refugees and Emigrants coming from Germany, and executive secretary of

German-Jewish Children’s Aid in 1934. Razovsky was also involved with many

other organizations including the National Conference of Social Work (1926 to

1929), the Conference on Immigration Policy (1928) and the International

Conference for Protection of Migrants in Geneva (1929). In 1934, she

organized the Coordinating Committee for Refugee Resettlement which would

become the National Refugee Service in

1939. Between 1944-1948 she worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Joint Distribution Committee. As part of her

efforts to study and assist Jewish refugees, Razovsky traveled extensively and

established a social service program for refugees in Cuba. She

married Dr. Morris Davidson in 1927 and they had one son David L. Davidson. The family lived died at the age of 77 on September 28, 1968

in San Diego.

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