The following entry for the Shater Progressive Benevolent Association appeared in Di yidishe landsmanshaftn fun nyu york (The Jewish Landsmanshaftn of New York) prepared by the Yiddish Writers' Guild of the Federal Writers' Project, Works Projects Administration, published by the I.L. Peretz Yiddish Writers' Group in 1938.


English translation is as follows:

Shater Progressive Ben. Assn.
Meetings: The first and third Sundays, 40 East 7th Street.
Founded: 1909 with 12 members, now 170 members.
Element mixed. 15% American born, 5% not landsleit.
Language of meetings Yiddish-English.
Purpose: for mutual aid, sick and death benefits, grounds.
Secretary: Theodore Lapidus, 210 East 166th Street, Bronx.

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