Authors: Shulamit Reinharz, Mark A. Raider
ISBN-13: 9781584654391, ISBN-10: 1584654392
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
SHULAMIT REINHARZ is the founding Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Jacob Potofsky Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University, and General Editor for the Brandeis Series on Jewish Women. MARK A. RAIDER is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History, Chair of the Judaic Studies Department, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Albany. He is co-editor of The Plough Woman (UPNE/Brandeis, 2002) and the author of The Emergence of American Zionism (1998).
The first and only complete exploration of the role of American women in the creation and support of the State of Israel from pre-State years through the struggles of Israel's first decades.
Introduction | ||
1 | Emma Lazarus and pre-Herzlian Zionism | 5 |
"The banner of the Jew" (1882) : Emma Lazarus | ||
2 | The Zionist vision of Henrietta Szold | 23 |
"Keeping the torch burning" (1936) : an exchange of correspondence between Beatrice Barron and Henrietta Szold | ||
3 | Marie Syrkin : an exemplary life | 46 |
"Why partition?" (November 1946) : Marie Syrkin | ||
4 | "Never a rubber stamp" : Bessie Gotsfeld, founder of Mizrachi Women of America | 75 |
5 | Formulating the "women's interpretation of Zionism" : Hadassah recruitment of non-Zionist American women, 1914-1930 | 89 |
6 | The romance and Realpolitik of Zionist pioneering : the case of the Pioneer Women's Organization | 112 |
7 | Hadassah-WIZO Canada and the development of agricultural training for women in pre-state Israel | 133 |
8 | The impact of Zionism on the International Council of Jewish Women, 1914-1957 | 143 |
9 | Women and Zionist activity in Erez Israel : the case of Hadassah, 1913-1958 | 159 |
10 | Settling the old-new homeland : the decisions of American Jewish women during the interwar years | 189 |
11 | Em Leemahot : the public health contributions of Sara Bodek Paltiel to the Yishuv and Israel, 1932-1993 | 216 |
12 | Rose Viteles : the double life of an American woman in Palestine | 238 |
13 | Irma "Rama" Lindheim : an independent American Zionist woman | 255 |
14 | Golda Meir and other Americans | 287 |
15 | Golda : femininity and feminism | 301 |
16 | Contemplating Aliyah to Palestine | 317 |
17 | From Brooklyn to Palestine in 1939 | 322 |
18 | "They couldn't imagine an American girl would do the work" | 325 |
19 | Memories of Rose Luria Halprin | 327 |
20 | Coming of age in Kibbutz | 332 |
21 | Life in a religious Kibbutz | 339 |
22 | "I became a Zionist on the top floor" | 349 |
23 | Remembering Israel's War of Independence | 355 |