American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise
Edited by Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY PRESS Waltham, Massachusetts
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND HANOVER AND LONDON Contents
Preface xv Editors' Note xvii Introduction by Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider xix Map of Palestine xxix Timeline of American Jewish Women and Zionism in xxxi Historical Context, 1848-1948
PART I
Three Generations of American Jewish Women 1 and the Zionist Idea
1. Emma Lazarus and Pre-Herzlian Zionism 5 Arthur Zeiger "The Banner of the Jew" (1882) EMMA LAZARUS
2. The Zionist Vision of Henrietta Szold 2.3 Allon Gal "Keeping the Torch Burning" (1936) AN EXCHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN BEATRICE BARRON AND HENRIETTA SZOLD
3. Marie Syrkin: An Exemplary Life 46 Carole S. Kessner "Why Partition?" (November 1946) MARIE SYRKIN xii Contents
PART II
American Jewish Women's Organizations and the 71 Zionist Enterprise
4. "Never a Rubber Stamp": Bessie Gotsfeld, Founder of 75 Mizrachi Women of America Baila Round Shargel
5. Formulating the "Women's Interpretation of Zionism": 89 Hadassah Recruitment of Non-Zionist American Women, 1914-1930 Mary McCune
6. The Romance and Realpolitik of Zionist Pioneering: nz The Case of the Pioneer Women's Organization Mark A. Raider
7. Hadassah-WIZO Canada and the Development of 133 Agricultural Training for Women in Pre-State Israel Esther Carmel-Hakim
8. The Impact of Zionism on the International Council of 143 Jewish Women, 1914-1957 Nelly Las
9. Women and Zionist Activity in Erez Israel: The Case of 159 Hadassah, 1913-1958 Mira Katzburg-Yungman
PART III
Aliyah, Social Identities, and Political Change 185
10. Settling the Old-New Homeland: The Decisions of 189 American Jewish Women during the Interwar Years Joseph B. Glass Contents xiii
11. Em Leemahot: The Public Health Contributions of Sara 216 Bodek Paltiel to the Yishuv and Israel, 1932-1993 Peri Rosenfeld
12. Rose Viteles: The Double Life of an American Woman 23 8 in Palestine Sara Kadosh
13. Irma "Rama" Lindheim: An Independent American 255 Zionist Woman Shulamit Reinharz
14. Golda Meir and Other Americans 287 Marie Syrkin
15. Golda: Femininity and Feminism 301 Anita Shapira
PART IV
Women Report and Remember: Documentary Portraits 313
16. Contemplating Ally ah to Palestine 317 (Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1935) Judith Korim Hornstein
17. From Brooklyn to Palestine in 1939 322 (Kibbutz Kfar Blum, 1985) Engee Caller
18. "They Couldn't Imagine an American Girl 325 Would Do the Work" (Kibbutz Revivim, 1971) Golda Meir
19. Memories of Rose Luria Halprin 327 (Norwalk, Connecticut, 1999) Ruth Halprin Kaslove xiv Contents
20. Coming of Age in Kibbutz 332 (Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek, 1954) Irma "Rama" (Levy) Lindheim
21. Life in a Religious Kibbutz 339 (New York, New York, 1999) Yocheved Herschlag Muffs
22. "I Became a Zionist on the Top Floor" 349 (Bethesda, Maryland, 1999) Lois Slott
23. Remembering Israel's War of Independence 355 (Givat Savyon, Israel, 1999) Zipporah Porath
Glossary of Terms 363 A Note on Bibliography 3 6j About the Contributors 371 Index 377