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September 14, 2021
The Founder of Hadassah Invigorated American Zionism and Brought Thousands of Jewish Children to the Land of Israel
Henrietta Szold.
Born in 1860 to a rabbinic family that had left its native Hungary and settled in Baltimore, Henrietta Szold is best known today as the founder of the women’s Zionist organization Hadassah. She was also a pioneering journalist, accomplished editor and translator, and one of the leading Jewish philanthropists of both the U.S. and the Land of Israel. Reviewing Dvora Hacohen’s biography of Szold, recently translated from Hebrew into English, Jenna Weissman Joselit describes its subject as an “avid Zionist at a time when committed American Zionists were few and far between,” and credits Hadassah with “transform[ing] Zionism from a cause into a calling.”
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The Founder of Hadassah Invigorated American Zionism and Brought Thousands of Jewish Children to the Land of Israel
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