American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise

Despite a historical record that shows sustained involvement of American Jewish women with early Zionism and Palestine, this topic has received scant scholarly attention. A major contribution to Zionist history, women’s history, and American history, American Jewish Women and Zionism offers a much needed clarification to the historical record.

Divided thematically, American Jewish Women deals with representative figures, events, and themes of the pre-state era. The essays in the book ha…