Founder of Henry Street Settlement on New York’s Lower East Side as well as the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Lillian Wald (1867–1940) was a remarkable social welfare activist. She was also a second-generation German Jewish immigrant who developed close associations with Jewish New York even as she consistently dismissed claims that her work emerged from a fundamentally Jewish calling. Challenging the conventional understanding of the Progressive movement as having its origins in Ang...

The greatest social reformer of her time!Pres. Franklin Roosevelt called Lillian Wald "one of the least known yet most important people" of her time. Wald, a relentless advocate for the welfare of children, was responsible for many of the social and health-related programs we take for granted today. She campaigned for school lunches and nurses in public schools, founded the Henry Street Settlement, and was an early promoter of women's suffrage. Wald was ad...

Il volume, utilizzando i testi della Wald delinea principi teorici e pratici dell’attività assistenziale sanitaria, mostrandone caratteri ed effetti diretti, in un’epoca nella quale il rapporto terapeutico e di assistenza donna-uomo non era affatto scontato mentre ovviamente era pressoché naturale quello uomo-donna. La costituzione da parte della Wald del primo servizio indipendente di attività infermieristica a domicilio (visiting) per la salute pubblica negli Stati Uniti resta tappa fond...

Step into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side, where one woman's revolutionary vision transformed the lives of America's forgotten immigrants. In 1893, young nurse Lillian Wald made a decision that would reshape social work forever when she moved into a cramped apartment on Henry Street, determined to bring healthcare and hope directly to families trapped in crushing poverty. This remarkable memoir chronicles her pioneering journey from privileged upbringing to becoming the mother ...

Nearly one hundred years after the Henry Street Settlement was founded, this venerable institution still serves the people of the lower East Side of New York. Much of the credit for its survival may be attributed to its founder, Lillian Wald, who is also the author of this book.The House on Henry Street was written at the height of the Progressive Era, when economic prosperity and an expansive spirit were pervasive, but when poverty and misery were the lot of countless new immigrants and f...