Recent Jewish Progress in Palestine.
[Judaica]. Szold, Henrietta. Recent Jewish Progress in Palestine. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1915.
12mo.; frontispiece map; drab wrappers, slightly soiled, small chip to top right front corner, slightly larger chip to lower back corner; else very good.
First separate publication, reprinted from the American Jewish Year Book 5676.
Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) served on the editorial board of the Jewish Publication Society of America from 1892-1916, during which time she translated many works from French, German, and Hebrew, such as The Ethics of Judaism by Maritz Lazarus and The Legends of Judaism by Louis Ginzberg. Her fame, however, rests on her Zionist activities. Perhaps the most important woman Zionist, in 1912 Szold founded the women’s Zionist organization Hadassah, serving as its President until 1926.
This report gives the historical background of each settlement from the 1897 International Congress of Jews called by Theodor Herzl in Basle, tracing the growth of educational and agricultural institutions, as well as other facets of settlement development. Szold first visited Palestine in 1909; this report, published six years later, reveals the perspective of someone at the center of the Jewish resettlement of Palestine, and stands as an important 20th-century document.
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