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Irene Kaufmann Settlement (IKS), known as the Columbian School and Settlement from 1895 to 1910, was a settlement house located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, at 1835 Center Avenue. It was the idea of Pauline Hanauer Rosenberg and established by the Columbian Council (now known as the National Council of Jewish Women - Pittsburgh Section) for moral, educational, and religious training. \"The special purposes of the Settlement is the advancement of the civic, intellectual and social welfare of the surrounding community. It aims to do this (1) by guiding the foreign-born to American conditions, (2) encouraging self-improvement, (3) stimulating healthy pleasures, (4) broadening civic interests, (5) creating ideals of conduct. The place is a home in the life of its residents, an institution in the service of its friends, a school in the work of its teachers, a club house in the social uses of its neighbors, a civic organization in the interests of the community, a Settlement in the choice of its location\".[1]

Irene Kaufmann Settlement, junior basketball team, Dec. 1929

At the geographical center of the Lower Hill District (Pittsburgh\'s most populous district at that time), the IKS made its service available to anyone who needed its aid. It coordinated services with the Jewish Federated Philanthropies, the Municipal Safety and Health Departments, the Labor Bureau of the Council of Jewish Women, the public schools, the Associated Charities, the Juvenile Court, the Housing Commission, and the Emma Farm. The IKS housed under its roof 17 outside organizations, including various trade unions and socialist groups. It maintained a public bath and public laundry, and a summer camp.

It had a resident staff of seven; additionally, 170 volunteers gave one or more hours each week to some form of social service in the district. The property of the Irene Kaufmann Settlement covered an area of 200 by 60 feet (61 m × 18 m). The settlement building was erected in 1910. It was of steel frame construction with yellow brick, and five stories high. There were 67 rooms in the main building, and a gymnasium and public bath in the rear, that building being known as the Peacock Public Bath. The settlement building was dedicated March 29, 1911. It was a monument to the memory of Irene Kaufmann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kaufmann, owners of Kaufmann\'s Department Store, one of the largest stores in Pittsburgh. Miss Kaufmann died in 1907.[1][2][3]

See also

History of the Jews in Pittsburgh

Settlement and community houses in the United States

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The Emma Farm Association was created to “maintain a farm in order to provide open-air recreation for children and adults and a temporary home for convalescents.” The Association was organized by a group of 33 community leaders on May 19, 1908, after Isaac and Morris Kaufmann purchased a small farm in Harmarville, Pa. for such purposes. The association was named for Isaac Kaufmann’s late wife Emma Kaufmann.

Although its sponsors and leadership came from the Jewish community, and it observed the Jewish dietary laws of kashrut at its facilities in an attempt to make the camp accessible to Orthodox members of the community, the Emma Farm Association was non-denominational and non-sectarian. In its early years, the Irene Kaufmann Settlement House, the Soho Baths Settlement, the Woods Run Industrial Home, and the United Hebrew Relief Association all referred children to the Emma Farm. The Emma Farm initially included a Farm School Department to oversee programs for juvenile delinquents and a Fresh Air Department to provide recreation for children and families.

The Emma Farm Association was one of the original beneficiaries of the Federation of the Jewish Philanthropies of Pittsburgh. Initially independent, the Emma Farm Association partnered with the Irene Kaufmann Settlement House in 1916 to provide management. Several changes were implemented under the new management arrangement, such as the introduction of enrollment fees, the elimination of private dining halls for staff, and steps to eliminate food waste and reduce overcrowding. The Farm School Department was dropped in 1918 to devote resources to the Emma Farm Camp.

To accommodate growth, the Emma Farm Camp relocated in the early 1920s to a site along the Connoquenessing Creek between Zelienople, Pa. and Harmony, Pa. The Emma Farm Association was part of a larger network of “fresh-air” camps across the country, and it evolved over the years along with wider changes in the field. The Emma Farm Association revised in bylaws in 1922. It made a series of changes in the 1940s designed to implement emerging best practices from the American Camping Association. In these years, the organization began increasingly using the name Emma Kaufmann Camp.[1]

Following a two-year study overseen by the United Jewish Federation, the Emma Farm Association merged with the Irene Kaufmann Center and the Young Men’s and Women’s Hebrew Association in 1961. As part of the merger, the Laurel Y Camp merged its operations into the Emma Farm Camp. Emma Kaufmann Camp acquired the 200-acre Camp Lynnwood near Morgantown, W.Va. in 1971 and relocated the following year.[2]