Rose Schneiderman (April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a prominent United States labor union leader and socialist of the first part of the twentieth century.
Rose Schneiderman was born on 6 April 1882, in the village of Saven, Poland, the first of four children. As with many Eastern European Jews during the late nineteenth century, her parents, Samuel and Deborah (Rothman) Schneiderman, worked in the sewing trades to support their impoverished f...
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Rose Schneiderman (April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a prominent United States labor union leader and socialist of the first part of the twentieth century.
Rose Schneiderman was born on 6 April 1882, in the village of Saven, Poland, the first of four children. As with many Eastern European Jews during the late nineteenth century, her parents, Samuel and Deborah (Rothman) Schneiderman, worked in the sewing trades to support their impoverished family, at first in Saven and then in the industrial city of Chełm. In 1890 the family migrated to New York City's Lower East Side. Rose Schneiderman's father died in the winter of 1892, leaving the family in desperate poverty. Rose and her brothers spent over a year in Jewish orphanages before their mother could reunite them.
Schneiderman went to work in 1895, starting as a cashier in a department store and then in 1898 as a lining stitcher in a cap factory in the Lower East Side. In 1902 she and the rest of her family moved briefly to...
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