324:, a British countess by marriage, was involved in welfare and educational activities throughout the United Kingdom on behalf of immigrants in general, and Jewish immigrants in particular. On an 1885 visit to London, she was exposed to the problems of Jewish prostitution in that city. She learned that a number of shelters existed for at-risk women which were sponsored by the church, missions or other Christian women's organizations, but not a single Jewish shelter able to take in Jewish women who wanted to break free from prostitution and re-enter normative Jewish society. In those years, mainstream Anglo-Jewish society considered women who engaged in prostitution as degenerate and outcasts, and therefore the Jewish community was not interested in accepting those women back into it. The countess realized that there were Jewish women who needed such a shelter, and therefore concluded that it was necessary to establish such an organization for them.
280:, and by 1900 that number grew to 6.2 million. This rapid growth led to significant demographic changes and to social instability. Economic opportunities lagged behind the needs of the growing population, and shortages caused a major wave of emigration. Between 1880–1914, 6.2 million Jews exited through international borders. They left Eastern and Central Europe for the United States with the objective of improving their lives. Many of them didn't reach their initially intended destination, stopping instead in countries in South America or Western Europe, due to the opportunities and expectations for success there. Other emigrants had their change of destination forced upon them by circumstances. To this category primarily belong Jewish women, among them adults and adolescents, some of them newly married, who were enticed by various means to engage in the
335:. Together they founded The Jewish Ladies Association for Preventive and Rescue Work. Lady Battersea served as the Head Secretary and Lady Rothschild was appointed President, while the men served as the "Gentlemen's Committee," an auxiliary council accompanying the association. As with other women's welfare associations of that period in Great Britain, the founders were from the upper class and performed their duties on a voluntary basis. Their objective was to rescue women who had strayed from their path, to rehabilitate them for reintegration into mainstream society, and effectively to break them out of the cycle of prostitution.
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with one child. Soon they recognized the need for vocational training for sheltered women to find dignified employment. The first occupations were as
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