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To Repair a Broken World - The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah (Hardcover)
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To Repair a Broken World - The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah (Hardcover)
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The authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, founder of
Hadassah, introduces a new generation to a remarkable leader who
fought for women’s 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, “repair of the world.”
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 women’s organization dedicated to humanitarian work
and community building. A passionate Zionist, Szold was troubled by
the Jewish–Arab 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 women’s 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 Szold’s 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and personal diaries, many previously unpublished, as well as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.
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