Erica B. Simmons

Hadassah and the Zionist Project

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hadassah and the Zionist Project offers a fresh perspective on Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America and the largest women's organization in the United States, telling the fascinating story of how American Jewish women played a leading role in achieving Zionist goals and shaping the state of Israel. The book also traces Hadassah's involvement in the child rescue movement, which saved thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as from the beleaguered Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780742549388
• ISBN-10: 0742549380
• Artikelnr.: 21168176

Autorenporträt

Erica B. Simmons

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: American Maternalists in Palestine and Israel
Chapter 2 "The Healing of the Daughter of My People": Henrietta Szold and
the Creation of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
Chapter 3 "A Joyful Mother of Children": Child Welfare in the Yishuv
Chapter 4 "A New Type of Woman": The Struggle for Women's Equality in the
Yishuv
Chapter 5 "Persecuted, Uprooted": Youth Aliyah and the Rescue of European
Jewish Children
Chapter 6 "Future Builders of the State": Youth Aliyah and the Rescue of
Oriental Jewish Children
Chapter 7 Conclusion