Rose Gell Jacobs (1888-1975) was a founding member and two-term president of Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America.
Rose Gell Jacobs (1888-1975) was a founding member and two-term president of Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America.
Rose Gell Jacobs was born on September 10, 1888, in New York City. [1] She attended Columbia University and worked as a public school teacher until 1914. As a Hadassah founding member, she established chapters and edited the Hadassah News Bulletin. In 1920, she served as acting president of Hadassah while Henrietta Szold was in Palestine. [2] She served two terms as official national president of Hadassah, from 1930 to 1932 and from 1934 to 1937. During her second term, she committed Hadassah fundraising efforts to Youth Aliyah. [3] After her terms as president, she was involved in the Hadassah Emergency Committee and the building of the Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital and Medical School on Mount Scopus. [4]
Additionally, Jacobs was involved with the Committee for the Study of Arab-Jewish Relations, ESCO Foundation, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. [5]
Jacobs and her husband Edward had two children.
Henrietta Szold was an American-born Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandatory Palestine dedicated to a binational solution.
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Ida Silverman was a Jewish philanthropist, who with her husband helped found approximately 100 synagogues, mostly in Israel. She is the only woman to have served as vice president of the Zionist Organization of America and the American Jewish Congress.
Zipporah Szold was the fourth president of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America, serving from 1928 to 1930.
Rae Landy was a nursing pioneer. She was one of the first two American nurses sent to Palestine by Hadassah in 1913.
Faye L. Schenk was an American Zionist activist and leader. She was the president of Hadassah from 1968 to 1972. She was also the president of the American Zionist Federation from 1974 to 1978.
Miriam Shomer Zunser was an American journalist, playwright and artist. She was a significant promoter of Jewish culture prior to World War II.
Rose Luria Halprin (1896–1978) was an American Zionist leader and National President of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America. In addition to her two terms as Hadassah president, she also served on the Zionist General Council, American Zionist Emergency Council, American Jewish Conference, and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. As part of the American section for the Jewish Agency, she was involved in discussions that led to the establishment of the State of Israel.
Alice Lillie Seligsberg was an American Zionist, social worker, and president of Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America from 1921 to 1923.
Hadassa Bimko Rosensaft was a Polish holocaust survivor. She is credited with saving thousands of Holocaust victims.
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Louise Wise was a Jewish-American artist and social worker. Her husband was Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
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