
	Where results make sense

Topic: Henrietta Szold

Related Topics

History of the Jews in Poland

Newcastle upon Tyne

In the News (Thu 17 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	JWA - Henrietta Szold - Overview
		Born in 1860, Henrietta was raised by her rabbi father to be deeply committed to the Jewish people and the world of Jewish tradition and scholarship.
		Still, Szold was constrained by the limited opportunities that the Jewish world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries could offer a woman of her brilliance, organizational abilities, and vision.
		Szold spent most of the last twenty-five years of her life in Palestine, overseeing numerous health, educational, and social service institutions that would become an integral part of the State of Israel.
	www.jwa.org /exhibits/wov/szold (322 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		Henrietta of England Henrietta of England (Henrietta Anne), 1644-70, duchesse d'Orléans, called Madame; sister-in-law of King Louis XIV of France.
		The daughter of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria of England, she was taken (1646) to France when civil war raged in England; in 1661 she married Philippe I, duc d'Orléans, brother of Lo...
		Henrietta Maria Henrietta Mariamerī´e, 1609-69, queen consort of Charles I of England, daughter of Henry IV of France.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Henrietta+Szold (498 words)

	MACHAR, The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism
		Henrietta Szold was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 21, 1860.
		Szold was astonished by the beauty of the land, but also horrified by the bad health and living conditions of the people, especially the children.
		Henrietta made sure that when the young victims arrived in Palestine, they were placed in villages and kibbutzim according to their religious background and other characteristics.
	www.machar.org /HSzold.html (1976 words)

	Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Szold, however, was constrained by the limited opportunities that the Jewish world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries could offer a woman of her brilliance, organizational abilities and vision.
		To Henrietta, the eldest of eight daughters, three of whom died in infancy, her father gave the attention and education usually reserved for an eldest son.
		Szold became the only woman elected to the publication committee of the newly formed Jewish Publication Society in l888 and was one of only two women invited to speak at the Jewish Congress held at Chicago’s 1893 Columbian Exposition.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1364 (2128 words)

	JWA - Henrietta Szold - Jewish Publication Society
		In 1888, Szold was elected as the only female member of the publication committee of the newly founded Jewish Publication Society.
		Szold's early contributions included writing, with Cyrus Adler, a concluding chapter on American Jewish history for JPS's first volume, Outlines of Jewish History by Lady Katie Magnes, and revising a problematic British translation of Heinrich Graetz's five-volume History of the Jews.
		After twenty-two years, Szold withdrew from JPS work in 1916 when a group of Zionists offered to provide her with an annuity in order to support her work for Hadassah.
	www.jwa.org /exhibits/wov/szold/jps.html (311 words)

	Szold, Henrietta (1860-1945) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henrietta Szold was noted for her many contributions to the Zionist movement.
		In 1927, Szold was elected by the Zionist Congress to be a member of the Zionist Executive, responsible for health and education.
		From 1934, Szold devoted all of her attention to the plight of Jewish youth in Europe.
	www.wzo.org.il /home/portrait/szold.htm (412 words)

	Miriam's Cup: Biography of Henrietta Szold
		Henrietta Szold was born in Baltimore during the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1860.
		Szold's third and most illustrious career was as an important leader in the Jewish Zionist movement.
		On Purim day, 1912, Szold and a group of these women officially founded Hadassah (Hebrew for Esther, the heroine of Purim), and she was elected president.
	www.miriamscup.com /SzoldBiog.htm (790 words)

	Henrietta Szold
		One of eight daughters of a Baltimore rabbi, Szold was a passionate and accomplished student of Judaism.
		Szold insisted that the most up-to-date medical treatment be extended to the Arabs of Palestine as well as to the Jews, and Hadassah played a major role in lowering Arab infant mortality.
		The personal tragedy of Szold's life was that she never married; this woman, whose life was devoted to saving the lives of children, never had children of her own.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Szold.html (508 words)

	Henrietta Szold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henrietta Szold was a U.S. Jewish scholar and Zionist leader.
		She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 21, 1860.
		Szold lived the rest of her life in Palestine and died in Jerusalem on February 13, 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henrietta_Szold (155 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Legacy of Henrietta Szold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		...Henrietta Szold was born in Baltimore on December 21, 1860, and was therefore an infant during the American Civil War...
		...Henrietta Szold returned to America with the proposal that the Hadassah group send a couple of public health nurses to Palestine to help combat such diseases as the trachoma she and her mother had found raging among the schoolchildren there...
		...Henrietta Szold selected the kvutaot on which the children were to be settled and made detailed agreements with their members...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V30I6P26-1.htm (4965 words)

	The Extraordinary Life of Henrietta Szold
		Szold was born in Baltimore in 1860 on the eve of the Civil War.
		Szold possessed a prodigious intellect and physical energy, which she combined with a practical sense.
		Szold persuaded her colleagues that practical programs open to all were critical to Jewish survival in the Holy Land.
	www.ajhs.org /publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=274 (903 words)

	Szold
		This is the third coin issued by the Bank of Israel to commemorate the Hanukka Festival and the Centenary of the birth of Henrietta Szold.
		She was born in Baltimore, and her vision grew out of her own struggles and the restrictions she faced as a modern Jewish woman.
		The inscription in Hebrew, "Henrietta Szold 5621/5721 - Hadassah-Youth Immigration".
	www.commem.com /prod04c.htm (255 words)

	[No title]
		In 1903, Henrietta Szold moved to New York, where she enrolled at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
		In 1934, Henrietta Szold became director of the new Youth Aliyah agency, which rescued thousands of Jewish children and youngsters from Nazi Germany and other European countries.
		Mossad Szold - an institute for research, publications and coordination of national youth activities and Kfar Szold, a kibbutz in northern Israel, are named after her.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/100/people/1.html (1218 words)

	HENRIETTA SZOLD
		Before Israel became a state, Henrietta Szold was one of the most famous Zionists in the world.
		Szold was born in the United States in 1860.
		In 1920, Szold moved to the Land of Israel.
	www.fuchsmizrachi.org /henrietta_szold.htm (290 words)

	Henrietta Szold Biography / Biography of Henrietta Szold Main Biography
		The American Jewish leader Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) founded Hadassah and organized the first Youth Aliyah projects, which were directed at rescuing Jewish youth from Nazi Europe.
		Henrietta Szold was born in Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 21, 1860.
		Her father, Benjamin Szold, was a rabbi and an active leader in the movement for African American emancipation.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-henrietta-szold (242 words)

	HADASSAH MAGAZINE
		Henrietta, he claimed, was his intellectual beauty whom he named after Queen Esther and Henrietta Herz, leader of Berlin’s finest literary salon, the only woman who knew Sanskrit, Malay and Turkish.
		henrietta szold wrote in her diary: “i can attach a distinct state of mind to Purim, 1905.” Louis Ginzberg, a brilliant Talmudic scholar, had asked Szold, the best student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, to accompany him to the Eldridge Street Synagogue to hear the Esther scroll.
		It was Szold who consoled me when the prize for outstanding student was given to the richest girl in town and not to me, the junk-dealer’s daughter.
	www.hadassah.org /news/content/per_hadassah/archive/2002/Feb_02/arts.htm (1459 words)

	j. - Filmmaker pursues search for Henrietta Szold — the untold story
		Henrietta Szold, a brilliant but unattractive matron in her mid-40s, is assigned by the Jewish Publication Society to work as a translator for Louis Ginzberg, a recent arrival to the United States from his native Lithuania.
		When Szold, a lifelong Zionist, arrives in Palestine she sees the pathetic state of medical care, organizes American nurses to help and goes on to establish the Henrietta Szold School of Nursing, found Hadassah Hospital and become the bridge between two Jewish communities.
		Although Szold’s diaries express her love for Louis Ginzberg, her external persona was typical of the era: repressed and Victorian.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/22358/format/html/displaystory.html (966 words)

	AllRefer.com - Henrietta Szold (Judaism, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henrietta Szold[zOld] Pronunciation Key, 1860–1945, American Zionist leader, editor, and translator, b.
		After graduating from high school in 1877 she taught (1878–92) in private schools, organizing some of the first night school classes for immigrants.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Henrietta Szold
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Szold-He.html (232 words)

	Szold, Henrietta
		Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 21, 1860, Henrietta Szold was of a German-speaking Hungarian immigrant family; her father was a rabbi.
		A trip abroad in 1909, including a visit to Palestine, confirmed Szold in the belief that the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine was of overriding importance.
		Szold died in Jerusalem, in the Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital she had helped make possible, on February 13, 1945.
	www.britannica.com /women/articles/Szold_Henrietta.html (627 words)

	FORWARD : Editorials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Szold, a friend of Judah Magnes and Martin Buber, two of the most forceful political proponents of the bi-national idea, was indeed a central member of the two organizations, Brit Shalom and Ihud, which advocated that position in pre-state Palestine.
		Joan Dash, in her 1979 biography of Szold, "Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold," describes the 1942 Hadassah convention at which the knives came out to eviscerate its own heroine for her belief in bi-nationalism.
		But the implications were there, and Miss Szold was deeply hurt by those implications to the point where she almost resigned from Hadassah.
	www.forward.com /issues/1999/99.07.02/ed.html (992 words)

	Address by Ambassador Edward S. Walker, Jr. Hadassah's Mission for Israel's 50th Anniversary Jerusalem, March 16, 1998
		The founder of Hadassah, Henrietta Szold,[ZOLD] was the eldest daughter of a distinguished Baltimore Rabbi.
		Szold and all of you who made this institution the great hospital and research center it has become.
		I wonder if Henrietta Szold could have forseen that today we would be celebrating a truly incredible historical reality: The 50th Anniversary of the State of Israel.
	www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/press/ambsador/am1319.htm (1507 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Summoned to Jerusalem, by Joan Dash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		...Henrietta Szold's strengths and weaknesses are clearly etched by Joan Dash in the final segment of her biography...
		...The years at the Seminary were climaxed by a particularly wrenching episode for Henrietta Szold: an unconsummated love affair with Louis Ginsberg, the young and charismatic prodigy of the Talmud, thirteen years her junior, who had been brought onto the Seminary faculty by Schechter...
		...This combination brought Henrietta Szold to Zionism early in life, and to a series of posts which she served with a high degree of social consciousness even as they left her personally unfulfilled...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V69I6P76-1.htm (1468 words)

	Jewish Heroes in America
		Henrietta Szold is considered to be one of the most outstanding Jewish women in American history.
		Szold became interested in writing for Jewish publications and, at the age of 19.
		Henrietta Szold was 84 when she died at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, where she is buried on the Mount of Olives.
	www.fau.edu /library/bro48.htm (557 words)

	Jewish-American Hall of Fame -- Virtual Tour
		Medal by Gerta Ries Wiener (1976), Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah.
		Henrietta Szold was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1860, a little more than a year after her parents arrived from Hungary.
		Her father, a prominent rabbi, gave Henrietta the attention and education usually reserved for an eldest son.
	www.amuseum.org /jahf/virtour/page14.html (340 words)

	JWA - Henrietta Szold - American Zionist Medical Unit
		Concerns over not offending the British who seemed likely to be granted a post-war mandate over Palestine resulted in pressure upon Szold, the effort's most visible spokesperson, to silence her profound pacifist objections to World War I. With much misgiving, she acquiesced.
		In 1920, Szold agreed to go to Palestine to look after the chaotic affairs of the AZMU for herself.
		With characteristic discipline and vision, Szold transformed the emergency effort into the Hadassah Medical Organization, emphasizing the health needs of women and children and serving people of all origins and religions.
	www.jwa.org /exhibits/wov/szold/azmu.html (318 words)

	The Nation, 03/03/1945 - Henrietta Szold by Lowenthal, Marvin
		...The spirit and philosophy of Henrietta Szold is perhaps best expressed in a letter she once wrote when the world and her own mood were at their darkest, "Just now," she said, "I tremble most of the time when I look ahead...
		...Wo-ck it was, and Henrietta Szold was the incarnate soul of wo-ck...
		...Henrietta Szold BY MARVIN LOWENTHAL EVERYWHERE we discern prognostics of the fact that,fe in the twentieth century will not be easy to live...
	www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v160i0009_10.htm (1499 words)

	Said it - Remember This - Volume 3, Number 5
		Szold, born in 1860, was the daughter of a rabbi.
		When Szold’s mother died in 1916, a close male friend volunteered to say the Mourner’s Kaddish for her.
		Szold declined, explaining to him in a letter “that the elimination of women from such duties was never intended by our law and custom -- women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them [because of family responsibilities] but not when they could.
	www.saidit.org /archives/feb03/rememberthis.html (661 words)

	Early Journalism of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henrietta Szold, founder of the largest women's Zionist organization in the world, at age 18 began contributing columns in the New York Jewish Messenger, a weekly, under a pseudonym.
		While numerous biographies tell of her work as secretary of the Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia and as pioneer Zionist in Palestine, leading up to the founding of the international Hadassah organization, no analysis has been conducted on her newspaper columns.
		She observed at the close of a talk at the local Y, "There was a general uproarious movement, as if the audience had been liberated from prison." Henrietta Szold held strong opinions about religion, government, and the role of women.
	www.utc.edu /Academic/Communication/conference/98conf/98Reed.html (520 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)