Norwood, Rose Finkelstein (10 September 1889–25 September 1980), labor organizer and leader, was born in Kiev, Russia, the daughter of Henry Finkelstein, a distillery worker who aspired to be a rabbi, and Fanny Schafferman. When Rose Finkelstein was one year old, she emigrated with her parents and older sister to Boston, where her father became a tailor and her mother operated a small grocery store. During her grammar school years in largely Irish-American East Cambridge, Finkelstein was taunted by other children as a “Christ Killer” and was injured several times when they threw bricks at her. These assaults, the most searing memory of her childhood, forced the family to move to a Jewish neighborhood in Dorchester....
