Offering the first comprehensive historiographic exploration of womens roles in the Zionist movement worldwide, this geographically wide-ranging study explores the ideologies, goals, strategies, activities, accomplishments and failures of womens 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 womens unique mode of Zionism differed from that of men and how it influenced the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine, in Israel, and the Zionist movement as a whole.
List of Tables
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 Koo Kobiet ydowskich (KK): The Jewish Womens Circle in
Lwów (19081918)
Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk
Chapter
4. The Koo Kobiet ydowskich (KK): The Jewish Womens Circle in
Lwów in Independent Poland (19181939)
Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk
Chapter
5. Gender and Perception: He-aluts ha-Tsair 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 Womens International Zionist Organization (WIZO)
Mira Katzburg-Yungman
Chapter
8. Women in the Zionist Movement in France from the Dreyfus Affair
until Israels Founding: 18971948
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 Womens 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, 19421951
Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
Chapter
13. Women in Zionist Activity in North Africa: Some Preliminary
Insights
Haim Saadoun
Chapter
14. Womens Activism in Zionism: Discussion and Conclusion
Mira Katzburg-Yungman
Appendix: List of Zionist Women and their Biographical Data
Glossary
Index
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 womens 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 Haavaya Hayehudit Ha-amerianit [ The American Jewish Experience] (2007).
