Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1937 Page: 4 of 26
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THE TEXAS JEWISH HERALD
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We ere very happy at this
time in having the privilege
of extending sincere con-
gratulations to the Jewish
Herald on the exemplified
service performed and the
progress they have achieved
in the past thirty-one years.
We wish them many more
years of success and send in
this message a word of greet-
ing to all of our Jewish
friends.
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Jewish Children9s Home
New Orleans, La.
An “orphan asylum,” where
the inmates get monthly spend-
ing allowances like other chil-
dren, and can use their money
the way their judgment leads
them—
An “institution,” to which its
children can invite their friends,
the way their playmates in pri-
vate homes do, and from which
they can go to spend the night
with a friend’s family, the way
other children do—
An orphanage, where the or-
phans have private rooms, with
desks and drawers for trinkets,
and toys, and privacy—
In short, the Jewish Children’s
home at St. Charles and Jeffer-
son avenues, where, if the truth
be known, the children receive
better care, more thoughtful
reading, and more substantial
comforts than many children in
their own homes.
It is an institution that has
consciously sought to turn itself
into a normal home for the chil-
dren who come to it. It has,
first of all, a superintendent who
isn’t quite a superintendent—
“Uncle Harry” Ginsburg, father,
advisor, confession-receiver, and
friend to all of the home—a
genial but shrewd student of hu-
man character, and child char-
acter in particular. His general
job is to see that the rest of the
superlative physical plant keeps
in gear.
In the old days, there were
long, bare and cheerless dormi-
tories, such as “orphanages” are
supposed to have. These have
been done away with. In their
place are private rooms, single
or for one or two or thfee at
most.
Once the children wore uni-
forms setting them apart from
others.
There is no regular school in-
struction at the home, because,
as “Uncle Harry” explains, it is
believed that the children should
not receive any unusual educa-
tion or be taught in any differ-
ent atmosphere than others of
their age.
Instead, most of the children
go to the Isidore Newman high
and elementary school, nearby,
one of the South’s leading or-
ganizations — itself founded in
connection with the home. Other
students pay, but the school is
always open to the Jewish Chil-
dren’s home.
And they don’t leave in the
morning in long lines, to be
pointed out by passers-by. They
go as they wish, by twos or
threes or alone if they wish, “like
any other kids.”
There’s one definite “mustn’t,”
at the home. There are to be no
special home clubs, or home
band or home athletic teams. This
Uncle Harry and his board be-
lieve, would develop a spirit of a
community of children, away
from the rest of the world; it,
would encourage the children to
think of themselves as different.
There are social rooms, here
and there about the home, where
children sit and read and talk
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The cAthletes of the tymblers Club join me in wishing
"Edgar Goldberg ” _
A Speedy Recovery and continued
Success of the Herald
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Goldberg, Edgar. Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1937, newspaper, April 22, 1937; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1102737/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .