American Women Zioinists
Hadassah in Historical Perspective
Mira Yungman
Translated by Tamar Berkowitz

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Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is the largest Jewish women’s organization in the world and the largest women’s organization in the United States. A pillar of the American Zionist movement, it has always surpassed all other Zionist organizations in the size of its membership and in the diversity and scope of its activity. The book considers all aspects of Hadassah’s activities and image in its early years. It discusses Hadassah’s ideals and traces their Jewish, American, and feminist origins; describes and analyses its activities in the US and Palestine (and subsequently in Israel); and illustrates its significance in the contexts of American Jewry, American Zionism, the World Zionist Movement, and Israel.

Dr Mira Yungman is an Israeli who received her education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of various articles on American and English Zionism, and the co-editor of American Jewry, an annotated source book on the German and East-European emigration, translated into Hebrew. She is also the editor of a forthcoming annotated bilingual source book entitled American Jewry 1920-1950 which deals with various issues related to American Jewry. Mira Yungman heads the development and teaching of academic, distance education courses in the fields of history and sociology of American Jewry at the Open University of Israel.

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