Szold, Henrietta, 1680-1945

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1860-12-21
Death 1945-02-13
Birth 1863
Death 1940
Birth 1880
Death 1945
Birth 1860
Death 1945
Israelis, Americans
German, Hebrew, English, German, Hebrew, English,

Biographical notes:

Henrietta Szold, Zionist leader, was born in Baltimore of Hungarian-Jewish parentage. She taught school at the Misses Adams School in Baltimore, and was the founder of a night school for Russian immigrants in Baltimore in 1889. From 1892-1915 Szold was the secretary of the Jewish Publication Society of America. A trip to Palestine in 1909 was the turning point in her life. She became an enthusiastic Zionist, became the Secretary of the Federation of American Zionists and founder and first President of Hadassah, the organization dedicated to supporting health work in Palestine. During 1920-1933 Szold divided her time between the United States and Palestine. In 1933 she settled in Palestine and directed the Youth Aliyah, the youth immigration movement from Germany to Palestine.

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Subjects:

  • Evening and continuation schools
  • International relief
  • Jewish refugees
  • Jewish religious literature
  • Jewish women
  • Jewish women
  • Jewish youth
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Medicine
  • Rabbinical seminaries
  • Zionism
  • Zionism
  • Zionists
  • Jewish women
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Zionism

Occupations:

  • Zionists

Places:

  • MD, US
  • 06, IL
  • Maryland--Baltimore (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Palestine (as recorded)
  • Hadassah, U.S.A. (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • New York (N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • Palestine (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Palestine (as recorded)
  • Palestine (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Palestine (as recorded)

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