International Women’s Day Celebration

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
by Julie Satow 

Sunday, March 9
3 p.m.
Temple Shomer Emunim, 6453 Sylvania Ave.
Event, $10 per person
Event and Book, $30 per person
Event includes author presentation, appetizers, and drinks

Join us for an amazing women’s only event celebrating International Women’s Day and see how far we have come in our struggle for equality, peace, and development by learning more about the visionaries behind Fifth Avenue.

In When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, award-win­ning jour­nal­ist and author of The Plaza, Julie Satow, chron­i­cles the rise of the depart­ment store through daz­zling por­traits of three vision­ary women who took great risks, forg­ing new paths for the women who fol­lowed in their foot­steps. This styl­ish account, rich with per­son­al dra­ma and trade secrets, cap­tures the depart­ment store in all its glitz, deca­dence, and fun, and show­cas­es the women who made that beau­ti­ful­ly curat­ed world go round.

This his­to­ry of Amer­i­can fash­ion and the depart­ment store is inex­tri­ca­ble from Jew­ish his­to­ry, from the Jew­ish immi­grants who worked in New York’s Gar­ment Dis­trict to influ­en­tial design­ers and cre­ators like Hat­tie Carnegie and Lena Him­mel­stein (bet­ter known as the cre­ator of Lane Bryant). These sto­ries are inter­wo­ven through­out Satow’s glit­ter­ing account of a bygone era of inno­va­tion and glamour.

Julie Satow is an award-winning journalist and author. Her new book, When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, was published on June 4 by Doubleday. Her first book, The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel, was a New York Times Editor's Pick and NPR Favorite Book of the Year. A regular contributor to the New York Times, her work has also appeared on National Public Radio, Travel + Leisure, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

This event is sponsored by the Toledo Jewish Community Foundation’s Long Term Community Needs fund and is being held in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo and the Sisterhood book clubs at Congregation B’nai Israel, Congregation Etz Chayim, and Temple Shomer Emunim.

RSVP by Monday, March 3 to https://form.jotform.com/jewishtoledo/jfgtprograms or with Sherry Majewski at 419-724-0351 or sherry@jewishtoledo.org.

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