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Author:

Simmons, Erica B., 1964-

Title:

Hadassah and the Zionist project / Erica B. Simmons.

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.
Zionism--United States--History--20th century.
Palestine--Social conditions--20th century.
Israel--Social conditions--20th century.
Jewish Agency for Israel.--Youth Aliyah Dept.
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.
Jewish Agency for Israel.--Youth Aliyah Dept.
Sionisme--États-Unis--Histoire--20e siècle.
Palestine--Conditions sociales--20e siècle.
Israël--Conditions sociales--20e siècle.
Szold, Henrietta,--1860-1945.
Vrouwen.
Joden.
Zionisme.
Alijah.
Verenigde Staten.
Palestina.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-228) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : American maternalists in Palestine and Israel -- "The healing of the daughter of my people" : Henrietta Szold and the creation of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America -- "A joyful mother of children" : child welfare in the Yishuv -- "A new type of woman" : the struggle for women's equality in the Yishuv -- "Persecuted, uprooted" : Youth Aliyah and the rescue of European Jewish children -- "Future builders of the state" : Youth Aliyah and the rescue of Oriental Jewish children.

ISBN:

9780742549388 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0742549380 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742549371 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742549372 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005013372

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)