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To repair a broken world : the life of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah
- Title
- To repair a broken world : the life of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah / Dvora Hacohen ; [translated by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel ; foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
- Author
- Hakohen, Devorah
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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- Description
- x, 388 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Dvora Hacohen offers the authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah. A global humanitarian, Szold promoted refugee assistance, immigrant education in her native Baltimore, and poverty alleviation in Palestine, inspiring generations of activists. With a foreword by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Note
- First edition published in Hebrew as Manhigah le-lo gevulot : Henriyeṭah Sold : biyografyah = To repair a broken world : the life of Henrietta Szold. Tel Aviv : Am Oved Books, 2019.
- Translated from the Hebrew.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-365) and index.
- Contents
- Beginnings -- New horizons -- The immigrants are coming -- The intellectual world -- Transitions -- Love and misery -- The land of dreams -- The depths of misery -- The healing of my people -- In Palestine -- Between two worlds -- In the national arena -- The mother of Youth Aliyah -- War and calamity.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-7557
- ISBN
- 9780674988095
- 0674988094
- LCCN
- 2020045447
- OCLC
- 1198019554
- Author
- Hakohen, Devorah, author.
- Title
- To repair a broken world : the life of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah / Dvora Hacohen ; [translated by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel ; foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-365) and index.
- Added Author
- Gertel, Shmuel Sermoneta, translator.Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-7557