1902 kosher meat boycott

1902 Kosher Meat Boycott
Police making an arrest in front of kosher shop on the East Side. Patrol wagon at right of picture. - New York Tribune May 17, 1902
Date	May 11, 1902 (1902-05-11) - June 9, 1902 (1902-06-09)
Number
+20,000

The 1902 kosher meat boycott was a boycott of New York City kosher butchers on the part of American Jewish women in response to a coordinated increase in price of kosher meat from 12 to 18 cents a pound. This increase was significant enough that many Jewish families could no longer afford to buy meat. The protests, led mainly by immigrant Jewish women on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, though controversial in their often-violent tactics, were largely successful and resulted in the lowering of the price of meat to 14 cents a pound.^[1]