San Francisco Chapter of Hadassah records, 1917-1984.

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San Francisco Chapter of Hadassah records, 1917-1984.

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Correspondence, which include letters from Henrietta Szold, Florence Prag Kahn, and Marvin Lowenthal; brochures; newsletters; programs; yearbooks; newspaper clippings; memos of the Hadassah Central Committee that document the organization's work (1917-1918); booklets of the Medical Organization of Hadassah and Hebrew University Hospital Fund for Palestine recording efforts to promote health care in the Jewish settlements; and telegrams from Zionist leaders relating to national coordination efforts.

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Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Rabbi Morris Goldstein Library

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Hadassah Medical Organization

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Kahn, Florence P. (Florence Prag), 1866-1948

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Lowenthal, Marvin, 1890-1969

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Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. San Francisco Chapter (San Francisco, Calif.)

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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...