American Jewish women and the Zionist enterprise /

American Jewish women and the Zionist enterprise /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Reinharz, Shulamit, Raider, Mark A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Waltham, Mass. : Hanover, N.H. : Brandeis University Press ; University Press of New England, [2005]
Series:Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life.
Brandeis series on Jewish women.
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.
Table of 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.