The Hadassah Book covers the topics of women, public health, and
Zionism. The book focuses mainly on the unique endeavor of the
members of the Hadassah Women's Organization, who took upon
themselves the mission of building modern public health services
for the Jewish community in Palestine under British rule, based on
their American experience in that field. During these first ten
years, public health services were provided to 46,000 pregnant
women, 53,000 infants, 700,000 house visits were made by nurses,
and 1.7 million visits were made to the 44 maternal and infant
welfare centers that provided services nationwide. Thanks to these
services, infant mortality in the Jewish community dropped
significantly from 144:1000 in 1922 to 54:1000 in 1939 (compared to
50:1000 in the U.S. and 53:1000 in the U.K.). No other similar
endeavor has achieved such remarkable results in such a short
period of time. All public health services provided under the
umbrella of Hadassah were equal to all, including the Arab
community. The mission was based mainly on the Zionist ideology of
building a new nation healthy in body and mind. The public health
mission of these American women was an integral part of the Zionist
mission and activities at that time. However, unlike other fields
of Zionist activity in Palestine during this period, it was led
completely and only by women. This book is the story of these
determined American Zionist women and their remarkable achievements
and contributions to the health of the Jewish community in
Palestine, which was the early offspring of a nation in building.
The Hadassah Book also includes original pictures that were
discovered only a few years ago in one of the old Hadassah storage
rooms in Jerusalem by Prof. Yoel Donchin, and they are currently
displayed at a special exhibition in the Jerusalem Theater. About
the Authors Shifra Shvarts, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of the
History of Medicine at Ben-Gurion University, and a researcher at
the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research,
Sheba Medical Center. She specializes in the social history of
medicine and public health in nineteenthto twentieth-century
Israel. She has published six books on the development and history
of the Israeli health care system. She is also the author of the
Israeli HMO indices in the Israeli Medical Encyclopedia and in the
Encyclopedia Judaica. Zipora Shehory-Rubin, Ph.D., is a Senior
Lecturer at Kaye Academic College of Education in Beer- Sheva,
Israel, where she teaches the history of education and Hebrew
language. She received her Ph.D. in history from Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev after completing her dissertation on
Hadassah's educational enterprises and health activities during
British Mandatory rule over Palestine. Her publications include
books and articles on various aspects of the history of education
and the history of medicine. Prof. Yoel Donchin, M.D., is a
Clinical Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Hadassah
Medical Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. After graduating from
Hadassah Medical School, he continued his residency at Hadassah,
where he is now the head of the Patient Safety Center. He also
rescued and preserved more than 1,000 photographs from Hadassah's
early years and films created during that period. Currently he is
the president of the Israeli Society of the History of Medicine.
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