| Description |
lix, 393 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
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Brandeis series on Jewish women
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Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
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Brandeis series on Jewish women.
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Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Jewish women -- United States -- Biography.
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Jewish women. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Zionists -- United States -- Biography.
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Zionists. |
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Jewish women -- United States -- Societies and clubs.
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Zionism -- United States -- Societies, etc.
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Zionism. |
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Jews, American -- Palestine -- Biography.
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Jews, American. |
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Jewish women -- Palestine -- Biography.
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Jews, American -- Israel -- Biography.
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Israel. |
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Jewish women -- Israel -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Reinharz, Shulamit.
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Raider, Mark A.
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| ISBN |
1584654392 paperback alkaline paper |
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1584654384 cloth alkaline paper |
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9781584654384 cloth alkaline paper |
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9781584654391 paperback alkaline paper |
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