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Offering the first comprehensive historiographic exploration of women’s roles in the Zionist movement worldwide, this geographically wide-ranging study explores the ideologies, goals, strategies, activities, accomplishments and failures of women’s organizations and individuals in Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. Covering the period from the inception of Zionism to the founding of Israel, this volume sheds light on how women’s unique mode of Zionism differed from that of men and how it influenced Jewish communities worldwide, in Mandatory Palestine and the Zionist movement as a whole.
“This is an important volume as the history of Zionism rarely includes women, especially outside the US or Mandatory Palestine… The collection is organized by region and then by time, making it easy to see the evolution of Zionism.” · Choice Recommended
Mira Katzburg-Yungman is a scholar of American Jewish history at the Department of History, the Open University of Israel (retired). Specializing in the history of Zionist women’s organizations in America and worldwide, she is a Spiegel Fellow at the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. Her notable publications include Hadassah: American Women Zionists and the Rebirth of Israel (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012; National Jewish Book Award finalist), and the three-volume bilingual anthology Haḥavaya Hayehudit Ha-ameriḳanit [The American Jewish Experience] (2007).
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Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes on Text
Introduction
Mira Katzburg-Yungman
Part I: Eastern Europe
Chapter 1. Choosing Zionism: Women Zionists in the Russian Empire as Reflected in Their Memoirs (A)
Tamar Shechter
Chapter 2. The New Hebrew Woman: Women Zionists in the Russian Empire as Reflected in Their Memoirs (B)
Tamar Shechter
Chapter 3. The Koło Kobiet Żydowskich (KKŻ): The Jewish Women’s Circle in Lwów (1908–1918)
Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk
Chapter 4. The Koło Kobiet Żydowskich (KKŻ): The Jewish Women’s Circle in Lwów in Independent Poland (1918–1939)
Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk
Chapter 5. Gender and Perception: He-Ḥaluts ha-Tsa’ir in Interwar Poland
Ela Bauer
Part II: Central and Western Europe
Chapter 6. Networks, Politics and Sports: Women in German Zionism
Tamara Or
Chapter 7. The Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO)
Mira Katzburg-Yungman
Chapter 8. Women in the Zionist Movement in France from the Dreyfus Affair until Israel’s Founding: 1897–1948
Nelly Las
Part III: The Americas
Chapter 9. The American Model for Organizing Zionist Women
Mira Katzburg-Yungman
Chapter 10. The Response of American Zionist Women’s Organizations to the Holocaust
Mira Katzburg-Yungman
Chapter 11. Working for the Creation of the Jewish State: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Zionist Women in Argentina
Adriana Brodsky
Part IV: Middle East and North Africa
Chapter 12. Nationalism and Gender: Jewish Girls and Young Women in the Zionist Movement in Iraq, 1942–1951
Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
Chapter 13. Women in Zionist Activity in North Africa: Some Preliminary Insights
Haim Saadoun
Chapter 14. Women’s Activism in Zionism: Discussion and Conclusion
Mira Katzburg-Yungman
Appendix: List of Zionist Women and their Biographical Data
Glossary
Index