Henrietta Szold Typed Letter in Hebrew - Jewish Community of Palestine Letterhead

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.78

Object Name

Letter

Date

1932

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Description

Tan paper with Jewish Community of Palestine return address in left corner, Hebrew in the right. Both printed. Letter typewritten in Hebrew. Signature in lower left.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Szold was a Jewish Zionist from Baltimore, Maryland who founded the Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. She immigrated to Palestine in 1933 where she helped run the Youth Aliyah, the organization founded by Recha Freier responsible for rescuing 30,000 Jewish children from Nazi Europe. She died in 1945 in the very hospital she helped build in Jerusalem.

Dimensions

10 3/4 x 8 1/2"

Keywords

Szold, Reier, Palestine Jewish Community, Zionism, Baltimore, Maryland, Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization of America, Youth Aliyah, Vaad Leumi

Subcollection

Freier, Post

Recommended Citation

"Henrietta Szold Typed Letter in Hebrew - Jewish Community of Palestine Letterhead" (1932). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.78.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/311

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