American Jewish women and the Zionist enterprise
By: edited by Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider
Contributors: Reinharz, Shulamit; Raider, Mark A
Series: Brandeis series on Jewish women; Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
Publisher: Brandeis University Press; University Press of New England
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Waltham, Mass; Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9781584654391; 9781584654384
Subjects: 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
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Emma Lazarus and pre-Herzlian Zionism / Arthur Zeiger; title: The Zionist vision of Henrietta Szold / Allon Gal; title: Marie Syrkin : an exemplary life / Carole S. Kessner; title: "Never a rubber stamp" : Bessie Gotsfeld, founder of Mizrachi Women of America / Baila Round Shargel; title: Formulating the "Women's interpretation of Zionism" : Hadassah recruitment of non-Zionist American women, 1914-1930 / Mary McCune; title: The romance and realpolitik of Zionist pioneering : the case of the Pioneer Women's Organization / Mark A. Raider; title: Hadassah-WIZO Canada and the development of agricultural training for women in pre-state Israel / Esther Carmel-Hakim; title: The impact of Zionism on the International Council of Jewish women, 1914-1957 / Nelly Las; title: Women and Zionist activity in Erez Israel : the case of Hadassah, 1913-1958 / Mira Katzburg-Yungman; title: Settling the old-new homeland : the decisions of American Jewish women during the interwar years / Joseph B. Glass; title: Em leemahot : the public health contributions of Sara Bodek Paltiel to the yishuv and Israel, 1932-1993 / Peri Rosenfeld; title: Rose Viteles : the double life of an American woman in Palestine / Sara Kadosh; title: Irma "Rama" Lindheim : an independent American Zionist woman / Shulamit Reinharz; title: Golda Meir and other Americans / Marie Syrkin; title: Golda : femininity and feminism / Anita Shapira; title: Contemplating aliyah to Palestine / Judith Korim Hornstein; title: From Brooklyn to Palestine in 1939 / Engee Caller; title: "They couldn't imagine an American girl would do the work" / Golda Meir; title: Memories of Rose Luria Halprin / Ruth Halprin Kaslove; title: Coming of age in kibbutz / Irma "Rama" (Levy) Lindheim; title: Life in a religious kibbutz / Yocheved Herschlag Muffs; title: "I became a Zionist on the top floor" / Lois Slott; title: Remembering Israel's War of Independence / Zipporah Porath