Polacheck, Hilda Satt (1882-1967)

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Jane Addams to Clara Landsberg, July 4, [1905]

Jane Addams to Clara Landsberg, August 29, 1905

Jane Addams to Clara Landsberg, September 1, 1905

Comments on Louis Satt Case, January 14, 1909 (excerpt)

Maude Slade Odell to Jane Addams, February 14, 1922

Jane Addams to Hilda Satt Polacheck, March 21, 1914

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Birth Date

1882-10-12

Death Date

1967-05-18

Birthplace

Wloclawek, Poland

Biographical Text

Hilda Satt Polacheck was a Polish born activist and writer. Polacheck and her family immigrated to the United States so her brothers could avoid conscription into the Russian army, and they settled in a Jewish neighborhood near Hull-House. Polacheck visited Hull-House for a Christmas party when she was a teenager, but did not become involved with the House until she was eighteen, when Jane Addams showed her the new Hull-House Labor Museum.
Polacheck then volunteered at Hull-House, giving tours and teaching English. She also contributed articles to The Butterfly and the Jewish Sentinel. Polacheck was active in social reform, participating in the suffrage movement, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Abraham Lincoln House, which was a Milwaukee settlement modeled on Hull-House. She was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She also became a writer for the Illinois Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Satt married William Polacheck in 1912. Polacheck died in 1967.

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Actor

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Social reform activist

Women's rights activist

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Lichon, Sara Catherine

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Rightsholder being researched

Gender

Female

First appears

1905

Bibliography and Links

Finding aid to the Hilda Satt Polacheck Papers.

Hilda Satt Polacheck, I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl, ed. Dena J. Polacheck Epstein (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989).

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“Polacheck, Hilda Satt (1882-1967),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 26, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/841.