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Hadassah and the Zionist project

Title
Hadassah and the Zionist project / Erica B. Simmons.
Author
Simmons, Erica S.
Publication
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.

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TextUse in library *PZX 06-4093Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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Description
x, 241 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
  • Jewish Agency for Israel. Youth Aliyah Department
  • Zionism > United States > History > 20th century
  • Palestine > Social conditions > 20th century
  • Israel > Social conditions > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-228) and index.
Contents
Introduction : American maternalists in Palestine and Israel -- "The healing of the daughter of my people" : Henrietta Szold and the creation of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America -- "A joyful mother of children" : child welfare in the Yishuv -- "A new type of woman" : the struggle for women's equality in the Yishuv -- "Persecuted, uprooted" : Youth Aliyah and the rescue of European Jewish children -- "Future builders of the state" : Youth Aliyah and the rescue of Oriental Jewish children.
Call Number
*PZX 06-4093
ISBN
  • 0742549372 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0742549380 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005013372
OCLC
60360426
Author
Simmons, Erica S.
Title
Hadassah and the Zionist project / Erica B. Simmons.
Imprint
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-228) and index.
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*PZX 06-4093
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