Hadassah And the Zionist Project

by Simmons, Erica B.

• ISBN13: 9780742549371
• ISBN10: 0742549372
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-12
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Hadassah and the Zionist Project offers a fresh perspective on Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America and the largest women's organization in the United States, telling the fascinating story of how American Jewish women played a leading role in achieving Zionist goals and shaping the state of Israel. The book also traces Hadassah's involvement in the child rescue movement, which saved thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as from the beleaguered Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Introduction : American maternalists in Palestine and Israel	p. 1
"The healing of the daughter of my people" : Henrietta Szold and the creation of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America	p. 9
"A joyful mother of children" : child welfare in the Yishuv	p. 47
"A new type of woman" : the struggle for women's equality in the Yishuv	p. 87
"Persecuted, uprooted" : Youth Aliyah and the rescue of European Jewish children	p. 115
"Future builders of the state" : Youth Aliyah and the rescue of Oriental Jewish children	p. 153
Conclusion	p. 193
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