Zionism in the United States
Jewish women constructed an approach to American Zionism that reflected their own unique position in American and Jewish society, employing the category of gender as a variable in the historical analysis of American Zionism. Jewish women were active participants in American Zionism from the earliest years of the movement. Zionist organizations for women, most prominently Hadassah, focused on creating study circles and engaged in participatory and grass-roots model of philanthropy to support Zionism. Throughout the movement, influential women moved fluidly between private and public life, and they placed areas of great concern to their own lives as American Jewish women onto the Zionist public and political agenda.
Background of American Zionist Movement
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Women in the American Zionist Movement
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Hadassah
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Women Leadership in American Zionist Circles
The poster reads "This woman's place is in the House...the House of Representatives! Bella Abzug for Congress."
Idealist and activist, champion of progressive causes, Bella Abzug ran for Congress in 1970 on a women’s rights/peace platform, and New York agreed that "this woman's place is in the House."
Courtesy of the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress.
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