Hadassah And The Zionist Project

Author : Erica B. Simmons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0742549380

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Hadassah and the Zionist Project by Erica B. Simmons Pdf

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!

Author : Michael Berkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521894204

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Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 by Michael Berkowitz Pdf

This 1996 study of the Zionist movement in Germany, Britain, and the United States recognizes 'Western Zionism' as a distinctive force. From the First World War until the rise of Hitler, the Zionist movement encouraged Jews to celebrate aspects of a reborn Jewish nationality and sovereignty in Palestine, while at the same time acknowledging that their members would mostly 'stay put' and strive toward acculturation in their current homelands. The growth of a Zionist consciousness among Western Jews is juxtaposed with the problematic nurturing of the movement's institutions, as Zionism was consumed increasingly by fundraising. In the 1930s, Zionist images assumed a progressively greater share of secular Jewish identity, and Zionism became normalized in the social landscape of Western Jewry, but the organization faltered in translating its popularity into a means of 'saving the Jews' and 'building up' the national home in Palestine.

Author : Sandra M. Sufian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226779386

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Healing the Land and the Nation by Sandra M. Sufian Pdf

A novel inquiry into the sociopolitical dimensions of public medicine, Healing the Land and the Nation traces the relationships between disease, hygiene, politics, geography, and nationalism in British Mandatory Palestine between the world wars. Taking up the case of malaria control in Jewish-held lands, Sandra Sufian illustrates how efforts to thwart the disease were intimately tied to the project of Zionist nation-building, especially the movement’s efforts to repurpose and improve its lands. The project of eradicating malaria also took on a metaphorical dimension—erasing anti-Semitic stereotypes of the “parasitic” Diaspora Jew and creating strong, healthy Jews in Palestine. Sufian shows that, in reclaiming the land and the health of its people in Palestine, Zionists expressed key ideological and political elements of their nation-building project. Taking its title from a Jewish public health mantra, Healing the Land and the Nation situates antimalarial medicine and politics within larger colonial histories. By analyzing the science alongside the politics of Jewish settlement, Sufian addresses contested questions of social organization and the effects of land reclamation upon the indigenous Palestinian population in a decidedly innovative way. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the Middle East, Jewish studies, and environmental history, as well as to those studying colonialism, nationalism, and public health and medicine.

Author : Erica B. Simmons
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Jewish women
ISBN : 0612916537

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Mothering the Nation [microform] : the Hadassah Organization's Social Welfare Project in the Yishuv and Israel, 1912-1960 by Erica B. Simmons Pdf

In the pre-state era before Israel's establishment in 1948, when most Zionist organizations concentrated on political lobbying and land development to advance the Zionist cause, Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, adopted a radically different---and at the time, controversial---strategy: it sought to improve living conditions in the Yishuv (Jewish community of Palestine) through providing hands-on social services to the local population. Beginning with setting up a nursing station in Palestine in 1913, Hadassah methodically laid the groundwork for the medical and social welfare systems of the future Jewish state. This thesis argues that Hadassah's early work in Palestine is best understood as an offshoot of the maternalist politics and "child-saving" agenda of the Progressive reform movement in the United States. Hadassah tied the maternalist agenda to the Zionist goal of a Jewish state by formulating a distinct ideology called here "Zionist maternalism." The core of Zionist maternalism was the idea that Jewish women had a specific responsibility for social welfare in the Yishuv. This study demonstrates that, through their participation in Hadassah, American Jewish women played a decisive role in the development of the social welfare infrastructure which made Israeli statehood possible in 1948. Ultimately, Hadassah took a leading role in shaping the political culture of Israel as a social welfare state. Hadassah's formidable contribution to the Zionist statebuilding project is assessed through an examination of the American field-tested projects which Hadassah transplanted to the Yishuv: pasteurized milk depots, maternal education, health care and health education in the schools, school lunches, nutrition education, organized playgrounds, model flats and domestic science education. The analysis of archival materials, including publicity brochures, newsletters and correspondence shows how Hadassah set up and administered these projects, and also how, through a carefully crafted publicity campaign, the organization persuaded many American Jewish women to support its innovative social welfare agenda. Hadassah's vital role in supporting the Youth Aliyah child rescue and education program from 1935 through the 1950s is also assessed in the context of the American organization's maternalist ideology and social welfare mandate.

Author : Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:2005347-10

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Hadassah in America and in Palestine 1912-1915 by Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization Pdf

Author : Dvora Hacohen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674988095

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To Repair a Broken World by Dvora Hacohen Pdf

The authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, introduces a new generation to a remarkable leader who fought for womenÕs rights and the poor. Born in Baltimore in 1860, Henrietta Szold was driven from a young age by the mission captured in the concept of tikkun olam, Òrepair of the world.Ó Herself the child of immigrants, she established a night school, open to all faiths, to teach English to Russian Jews in her hometown. She became the first woman to study at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and was the first editor for the Jewish Publication Society. In 1912 she founded Hadassah, the international womenÕs organization dedicated to humanitarian work and community building. A passionate Zionist, Szold was troubled by the JewishÐArab conflict in Palestine, to which she sought a peaceful and equitable solution for all. Noted Israeli historian Dvora Hacohen captures the dramatic life of this remarkable woman. Long before anyone had heard of intersectionality, Szold maintained that her many political commitments were inseparable. She fought relentlessly for womenÕs place in Judaism and for health and educational networks in Mandate Palestine. As a global citizen, she championed American pacifism. Hacohen also offers a penetrating look into SzoldÕs personal world, revealing for the first time the psychogenic blindness that afflicted her as the result of a harrowing breakup with a famous Talmudic scholar. Based on letters and personal diaries, many previously unpublished, as well as thousands of archival documents scattered across three continents, To Repair a Broken World provides a wide-ranging portrait of a woman who devoted herself to helping the disadvantaged and building a future free of need.

Author : Gil Troy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780827613980

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The Zionist Ideas by Gil Troy Pdf

The most comprehensive Zionist collection ever published, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland--Then, Now, Tomorrow sheds light on the surprisingly diverse and shared visions for realizing Israel as a democratic Jewish state. Building on Arthur Hertzberg's classic, The Zionist Idea, Gil Troy explores the backstories, dreams, and legacies of more than 170 passionate Jewish visionaries--quadruple Hertzberg's original number, and now including women, mizrachim, and others--from the 1800s to today. Troy divides the thinkers into six Zionist schools of thought--Political, Revisionist, Labor, Religious, Cultural, and Diaspora Zionism--and reveals the breadth of the debate and surprising syntheses. He also presents the visionaries within three major stages of Zionist development, demonstrating the length and evolution of the conversation. Part 1 (pre-1948) introduces the pioneers who founded the Jewish state, such as Herzl, Gordon, Jabotinsky, Kook, Ha'am, and Szold. Part 2 (1948 to 2000) features builders who actualized and modernized the Zionist blueprints, such as Ben-Gurion, Berlin, Meir, Begin, Soloveitchik, Uris, and Kaplan. Part 3 showcases today's torchbearers, including Barak, Grossman, Shaked, Lau, Yehoshua, and Sacks. This mosaic of voices will engage equally diverse readers in reinvigorating the Zionist conversation--weighing and developing the moral, social, and political character of the Jewish state of today and tomorrow.

Author : Mira Katzburg-Yungman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786949813

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Hadassah by Mira Katzburg-Yungman Pdf

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.

Author : Aaron Berman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0814322328

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Nazism, the Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1988 by Aaron Berman Pdf

An investigation of the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry. The demand for Jewish statehood politicized the rescue issue and made it impossible to appeal for American aid on purely humanitarian grounds. Berman tries to understand the constraints within which American Jews operated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jaclyn Granick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495028

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International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War by Jaclyn Granick Pdf

The untold story of how American Jews reinvented modern humanitarianism during the Great War and rebuilt Jewish life in Jewish homelands.

Author : Aaron Berman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814344033

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Nazism, The Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1948 by Aaron Berman Pdf

Aaron Berman takes a moderate and measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography, namely, the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry.In remarkably large numbers, American Jews joined the Zionist crusade to create a Jewish state that would finally end the problem of Jewish homelessness, which they believed was the basic cause not only of the Holocaust but of all anti-Semitism. Though American Zionists could justly claim credit for the successful establishment of Israel in 1948, this triumph was not without cost. Their insistence on including a demand for Jewish statehood in any proposal to aid European Jewry politicized the rescue issue and made it impossible to appeal for American aid on purely humanitarian grounds. The American Zionist response to Nazism also shaped he political turmoil in the Middle East which followed Israel’s creation. Concerned primarily with providing a home for Jewish refugees and fearing British betrayal, Zionists could not understand Arab protests in defense of their own national interests. Instead they responded to the Arab revolt with armed force and sought to insure their own claim to Palestine, Zionists came to link he Arabs with the Nazi and British forces that were opposed to the establishment of a Jewish state. In the thinking of American Zionists, the Arabs were steadily transformed from a people with whom an accommodation would have to be made into a mortal enemy to be defeated. Aaron Berman does not apologize for American Jews, but rather tries to understand the constraints within which they operated and what opportunities-if any-they had to respond to Hitler. In surveying the latest scholarship and responding o charges against American Jewry, Berman’s arguments are reasoned and reasonable.

Author : Spencer C. Tucker,Priscilla Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1741 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851098422

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The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict [4 volumes] [4 volumes] by Spencer C. Tucker,Priscilla Roberts Pdf

This exhaustive work offers readers at multiple levels key insights into the military, political, social, cultural, and religious origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History is the first comprehensive general reference encompassing all aspects of the contentious Arab-Israeli relationship from biblical times to the present, with an emphasis on the era beginning with World War I. The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict goes beyond simply recapping military engagements. In four volumes, with more than 750 alphabetically organized entries, plus a separate documents volume, it provides a wide-ranging introduction to the distinct yet inextricably linked Arab and Israeli worlds and worldviews, exploring all aspects of the conflict. The objective analysis will help readers understand the dramatic events that have impacted the entire world, from the founding of modern Israel to the building of the Suez Canal; from the Six-Day War to the Camp David Accords; from the assassinations of Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin to the rise and fall of Yasser Arafat, the 2006 Palestinian elections, and the Israeli-Hezbollah War in Lebanon.

Author : Deborah Dash Moore,Jeffrey S. Gurock,Annie Polland,Howard B. Rock,Daniel Soyer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479850389

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Jewish New York by Deborah Dash Moore,Jeffrey S. Gurock,Annie Polland,Howard B. Rock,Daniel Soyer Pdf

"Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, Jewish New York reveals the multifaceted world of one of the city's most important ethnic and religious groups. Spanning three centuries, Jewish New York traces the earliest arrival of Jews in New Amsterdam to the recent immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union. Jewish immigrants transformed New York. They built its clothing industry and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the center of the nation's publishing industry and shaped popular culture in music, theater, and the arts. With a strong sense of social justice, a dedication to civil rights and civil liberties, and a belief in the duty of government to provide social welfare for all its citizens, New York Jews influenced the city, state, and nation with a new wave of social activism. In turn, New York transformed Judaism and stimulated religious pluralism, Jewish denominationalism, and contemporary feminism. The city's neighborhoods hosted unbelievably diverse types of Jews, from Communists to Hasidim. Jewish New York not only describes Jews' many positive influences on New York, but also exposes the group's struggles with poverty and anti-Semitism. These injustices reinforced an exemplary commitment to remaking New York into a model multiethnic, multiracial, and multireligious world city."--Publisher's description.

Author : Shulamit Reinharz,Mark A. Raider
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584654392

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American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise by Shulamit Reinharz,Mark A. Raider Pdf

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.

Author : Carlos E. Cortés
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2475 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452276267

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Multicultural America by Carlos E. Cortés Pdf

This comprehensive title is among the first to extensively use newly released 2010 U.S. Census data to examine multiculturalism today and tomorrow in America. This distinction is important considering the following NPR report by Eyder Peralta: “Based on the first national numbers released by the Census Bureau, the AP reports that minorities account for 90 percent of the total U.S. growth since 2000, due to immigration and higher birth rates for Latinos.” According to John Logan, a Brown University sociologist who has analyzed most of the census figures, “The futures of most metropolitan areas in the country are contingent on how attractive they are to Hispanic and Asian populations.” Both non-Hispanic whites and blacks are getting older as a group. “These groups are tending to fade out,” he added. Another demographer, William H. Frey with the Brookings Institution, told The Washington Post that this has been a pivotal decade. “We’re pivoting from a white-black-dominated American population to one that is multiracial and multicultural.” Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia explores this pivotal moment and its ramifications with more than 900 signed entries not just providing a compilation of specific ethnic groups and their histories but also covering the full spectrum of issues flowing from the increasingly multicultural canvas that is America today. Pedagogical elements include an introduction, a thematic reader’s guide, a chronology of multicultural milestones, a glossary, a resource guide to key books, journals, and Internet sites, and an appendix of 2010 U.S. Census Data. Finally, the electronic version will be the only reference work on this topic to augment written entries with multimedia for today’s students, with 100 videos (with transcripts) from Getty Images and Video Vault, the Agence France Press, and Sky News, as reviewed by the media librarian of the Rutgers University Libraries, working in concert with the title’s editors.