Lillian Wald

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 Anglo-Pro