d an immigrant aid society soon after graduation. Her position took her into the city's meanest slums, where she urged newly-arrived Russian Jews to "Americanize" and keep their small homes clean. Her commitment to cleanliness - a preoccupation of the Progressive movement , forged alongside a growing acceptance #
Although considered one of the most successful fund-raising cookbooks in American history, The Settlement Cook Book emanated from Kander's efforts to Americanize Russian immigrant women through cooking classes," Angela Fritz wrote in a 2004 article for the Wisconsin Magazine of History . To Kander, #
Americanization meant eating more red meat than fish; using brand-name processed foods; giving up Jewish dietary laws; garnishing plates with lettuce leaves and #