Rabbi Hirsch's Neighborhood in Winter: Jane Addams and Hull-House's Early Years

For some, the approach of winter with its holidays means skating at the park, hot chocolate, picking and wrapping gifts, riding in a carriage out of the cold, sitting at a dinner at a family member's house. [...]Jane experienced lifelong spinal problems from suffering Potts's disease at the age of four, and a much-needed spinal surgery and long recovery forced her to abandon medical school. First Hull-House Holiday Party The holidays were coming to Chicago in 1893. The party, the first of many at Hull-House, brought in the Rabbi's young men and women (who, of course, didn't mingle-at least at first), the little group of Irish and Italian seamstresses, the small class Jane had set up for young African Americans up from the south, a couple Bohemian pipefitters and boilermakers, Lithuanian, Hungarian, and German meat dressers from Armour's plant, Serb and Croat leather tanners, a few Turkish rug merchants, Italian masons and marble workers, a Greek diner owner, young Spanish and Mexican girls who made paper flowers, three young Chippewa Indians, Malinski the Polish baker, Lin Jiang, the herb store owner, and assorted others.