Dvora Hacohen is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Her several books include the prizewinning The Children of the Time: Youth Aliyah 1933-1948. She has received the Ben-Gurion Prize for her contributions to scholarship.
[A] commanding account of Henrietta Szold...Renders [Szold] a
full-bodied personality rather than a figurehead. -- Jenna Weissman
Joselit * Jewish Review of Books *
Hacohen's biography teaches Americans about Szold's essential
contributions to the Yishuv beyond her work with Hadassah...This
inspirational and sweeping story of Henrietta Szold will appeal to
interested lay readers as well as scholars. -- Cyntha Francis
Gensheimer * Association for Jewish Studies Review *
A fascinating, wide-ranging biography of Henrietta Szold...The
author deserves much praise for undertaking the task of solving the
hard riddle of such an accomplished, diverse, and complex figure
during so long and significant a period of Jewish history. In
addition, Hacohen's fascinating narrative style makes this a book
of interest not only for historians but for much larger audiences
as well. -- Mira Katzburg-Yungman * Studies in Contemporary Jewry
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Hacohen beautifully captures the arc of Henrietta Szold's life in a
book that rests on deep scholarship and is exceedingly well
written. This compelling work will stand as the definitive
biography of one of the most important figures in modern Jewish
history. -- Pamela S. Nadell, author of America's Jewish Women:
A History from Colonial Times to Today
The life and work of Henrietta Szold remain both historically
significant and deeply inspiring. This first-ever scholarly
biography rests upon a mountain of research, filling in many
missing details concerning Szold's life in the United States and
providing an unprecedented account of her remarkable and still
underappreciated work in the Land of Israel. Hacohen's invaluable
book introduces a new generation to one of American Jewry's
greatest twentieth-century women. -- Jonathan D. Sarna, author of
American Judaism: A History
Henrietta Szold deserves to be more widely known for her enormous
achievements in and impact on American Jewish intellectual life,
Jewish women's empowerment, and the history of modern Zionism. We
are indebted to Hacohen for her comprehensive and gripping
biography that brings together a wealth of information never before
found in one volume about an extraordinary woman who has so
deservedly achieved iconic status. -- Shuly Rubin Schwartz, author
of The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish
Life
Hacohen's deeply researched and powerfully empathic biography of
Henrietta Szold is a landmark study of an extraordinary leader who
responded to some of the greatest challenges confronting Jews in
America and pre-state Israel in the first half of the twentieth
century. This highly readable book will endure as a classic in the
canon of works on modern Jewish history. -- Jack Wertheimer, author
of The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion
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