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Hadassah and the Zionist Project
Hadassah and the Zionist Project offers a fresh perspective on Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America and the largest women's organization in the United States, telling the fascinating story of how American Jewish women played a leading role in achieving Zionist goals and shaping the state of Israel. The book also traces Hadassah's involvement in the child rescue movement, which saved thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as from the beleaguered Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa. Visit our website for sample chapters!
The Emergence of American Zionism
The images of Zionist pioneers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--hard working, brawny, and living off the land--sprang from the ascendent socialist Zionist movement in Palestine known as "Labor Zionism." The building of the Yishuv, a new Jewish society in Palestine, was accompanied by the rapid growth of Zionism worldwide. How did Zionism take shape in the United States? How did Labor Zionism and the Yishuv influence American Jews? Zionism and Labor Zionism had a much more substantial impact on the American Jewish scene than has been recognized. Drawing on meticulous research, Mark A. Raider describes Labor Zionism's dramatic transformation in the American context from a ...
Builders and Dreamers
"This is the story of a unique strand in the American Jewish tapestry, a subculture that has persisted on the landscape of Jewish life for more than a half-century: the Labor Zionist youth movement, Habonim." "Although it never numbered more than four thousand members at its peak, Habonim has had an influence far beyond its size. Habonim members were a key segment of the worldwide pioneering youth movement that built the state of Israel. They set out to change Jewish history by transforming young Jews into the working class of a new nation. And while most remained in America, so many went on to become leading actors in the modern Jewish drama - both in Israel and in America - that Habonim, t...
