American Jewish Women And The Zionist Enterprise
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American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise
Author | : Shulamit Reinharz,Mark A. Raider |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1584654392 |
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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.
Hadassah
Author | : Mira Katzburg-Yungman |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2011-01-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781786949813 |
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National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women’s Studies, 2012. In February 1912 thirty-eight American Jewish women met at Temple Emanuel in New York and founded Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. This has become the largest Zionist organization in the Diaspora and the largest and most active Jewish women's organization ever. Its history is an inseparable part of the history of American Jewry and of the State of Israel, and the relationship between them. Hadassah is also part of the history of Jewish women in the United States and in the modern world more broadly. Its achievements are not only those of Zionism but, crucially, of women, and throughout this study Mira Katzburg-Yungman pays particular attention to the life stories of the individual women who played a role in them. Based on historical documentation collected in the United States and Israel and on broad research, the book covers many aspects of the history of Hadassah and analyses significant aspects of the fascinating story of the organization. A wide-ranging introductory section describes the contexts and challenges of Hadassah's history from its founding to the birth of the State of Israel. Subsequent sections explore in turn the organization's ideology and its activity on the American scene after Israeli statehood; its political and ideological role in the World Zionist Organization; and its involvement in the new State of Israel in the twin fields of activity: in medicine and health care and in its work with children and young people. The final part of the book deals with topics that enrich our understanding of Hadassah in additional dimensions, such as gender issues, comparisons of Hadassah with other Zionist organizations, and the importance of people of the Yishuv and later of Israelis in Hadassah's activities. The study concludes with an Epilogue that considers developments up to 2005, assessing whether the conclusions reached with regard to Hadassah as an organization remain valid. It considers developments within Hadassah in the 1980s and 1990s, years in which the organization was affected by the significant changes within the wider American Jewish community, specifically the enormous increase in intermarriage with non-Jews and the impact of the so-called 'second wave' of feminism. This extensive, diverse, and balanced study offers a picture of Hadassah in both arenas of its activity: in the land that is now the State of Israel, and in the United States. In doing so it makes a contribution not only to Zionist history but also to the history of American Jewish women and of Jewish women more widely.
The Journey Home
Author | : Joyce Antler |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781439138380 |
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A unique, positive collection of essays profiles a number of forgotten female Jewish leaders who played key roles in various American social and political movements, from suffrage and birth control to civil rights and fair labor practices.
The Whole Wide World Without Limits
Author | : Mary McCune |
Publsiher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814332293 |
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Often perceived as being removed from the rough-and-tumble world of male politics, women involved in relief during World War I and the 1920s found themselves grappling daily with questions of ideology, nationalism, and political statehood. Participation in large-scale relief work provided Jewish women with a firm sense of their own capabilities and contributed to their heightened sense of gender consciousness. Their experience provides powerful evidence that women activists in the post-suffrage period sustained a notable degree of separation from men even as they propounded gender equality, thereby facilitating American Jewish women’s entrance into the public realm without their having to sacrifice commitment to either Jewish or women’s issues. Gendered and separatist strategies enabled women to bring their concerns into the public sphere, affect the course of American Jewish history, and shape modern American Jewish identity. "The Whole Wide World, Without Limits" explores the international relief activities of three American Jewish organizations during this period: the National Council of Jewish Women, Hadassah (the Women’s Zionist Organization of America), and the Workmen’s Circle. Women in all three organizations vigorously raised money for Jews in the war zones and continued to help them after the armistice. Author Mary McCune demonstrates the significance of the work of each group while analyzing the interactions between class, ethnicity, religion, and gender consciousness, both inside the Jewish community and in the broader American context. McCune looks at a wide variety of Jewish women—Zionists and anti-Zionists, religious and secular, capitalists and socialists, wealthy and working-class—and sheds light on the myriad ways that personal identity shapes public activism. More importantly, this book reveals how women’s charity work and their use of gendered strategies exerted influence over seemingly unrelated political events.
Hadassah and the Zionist Project
Author | : Erica B. Simmons |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0742549380 |
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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. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Jewish Women in Pre State Israel
Author | : Ruth Kark,Margalit Shilo,Galit Hasan-Rokem |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2009-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781584658085 |
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A critical look at the history and culture of women of the Yishuv and a call for a new national discourse
The American Jewish Woman
Author | : Jacob Rader Marcus |
Publsiher | : KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 1222 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Jewish women |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106008979400 |
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Contains primary source material.
Nahum Goldmann
Author | : Mark A. Raider |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2009-03-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781438425153 |
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The life, career, and legacy of Nahum Goldmann (1895–1982), one of the most colorful and important Zionist leaders of the twentieth century, are fully revealed in this illuminating collection of essays. American, Israeli, and European scholars speak to the many sides of Goldmann, including his upbringing, rise in the international public arena as a premier advocate for Jewish life and the Zionist enterprise, and his role as an elder statesman in the 1960s and 1970s. Often ahead of his time, Goldmann proved highly influential at several critical historical junctures—on the eve of the creation of the Jewish state, he played a key role articulating Israel's relationship with diaspora Jewry, postwar Germany, and the Arab world. This volume captures Goldmann in all his complexity, while making this important figure and his time accessible to researchers, students, and interested readers.