American Jewish women and the Zionist enterprise / edited by Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider.
Series: Brandeis series on Jewish women | Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and lifePublication details: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, c2005.Description: lix, 393 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:- 1584654384 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1584654392 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Jewish women -- United States -- Biography
- Zionists -- United States -- Biography
- Jewish women -- United States -- Societies and clubs
- Zionism -- United States -- Societies, etc
- Jews, American -- Palestine -- Biography
- Jewish women -- Palestine -- Biography
- Jews, American -- Israel -- Biography
- Jewish women -- Israel -- Biography
- 320.54/095694 22
- E184.36.W64 A52 2005
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Emma Lazarus and pre-Herzlian Zionism / Arthur Zeiger -- The Zionist vision of Henrietta Szold / Allon Gal -- Marie Syrkin : an exemplary life / Carole S. Kessner --'Never a rubber stamp' : Bessie Gotsfeld, founder of Mizrachi Women of America / Baila Round Shargel -- Formulating the'Women's interpretation of Zionism' : Hadassah recruitment of non-Zionist American women, 1914-1930 / Mary McCune -- The romance and realpolitik of Zionist pioneering : the case of the Pioneer Women's Organization / Mark A. Raider -- Hadassah-WIZO Canada and the development of agricultural training for women in pre-state Israel / Esther Carmel-Hakim -- The impact of Zionism on the International Council of Jewish women, 1914-1957 / Nelly Las -- Women and Zionist activity in Erez Israel : the case of Hadassah, 1913-1958 / Mira Katzburg-Yungman -- Settling the old-new homeland : the decisions of American Jewish women during the interwar years / Joseph B. Glass -- Em leemahot : the public health contributions of Sara Bodek Paltiel to the yishuv and Israel, 1932-1993 / Peri Rosenfeld -- Rose Viteles : the double life of an American woman in Palestine / Sara Kadosh -- Irma'Rama' Lindheim : an independent American Zionist woman / Shulamit Reinharz -- Golda Meir and other Americans / Marie Syrkin -- Golda : femininity and feminism / Anita Shapira -- Contemplating aliyah to Palestine / Judith Korim Hornstein -- From Brooklyn to Palestine in 1939 / Engee Caller -- 'They couldn't imagine an American girl would do the work' / Golda Meir -- Memories of Rose Luria Halprin / Ruth Halprin Kaslove -- Coming of age in kibbutz / Irma'Rama' (Levy) Lindheim -- Life in a religious kibbutz / Yocheved Herschlag Muffs --'I became a Zionist on the top floor' / Lois Slott -- Remembering Israel's War of Independence / Zipporah Porath.
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