Organizational records of the Minneapolis Chapter and Upper Midwest Region. 1948-1996.

Gordon, Bernice Cowl. A girl of Baltimore: the story of Henrietta Szold.

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Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. Minneapolis Chapter.

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Szold, Henrietta, 1680-1945

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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 Presid...

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. Minneapolis Chapter and Upper Midwest Region.

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Hadassah was founded in New York in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, a Jewish scholar, editor, and Zionist. The organization grew out of a meeting of twelve members of the Daughters of Zion Study Circle on the Jewish holiday of Purim, and quickly expanded into a nationwide organization. The major projects of Hadassah were medical and educational aid to Palestine and subsequently to the Jewish state of Israel. The Youth Aliyah program, initiated by Szold in 1934, expanded the organization's ...