This Is Junior Hadassah.
[Judaica]. This is Junior Hadassah. (New York: The Young Women’s Zionist Organization of America), [1940?].
8vo.; printed orange, grey, and white striped wrappers, stapled; with numerous black-and-white photographs; fine.
First edition of an informative brochure about Junior Hadassah, a Zionist youth organization for American Jewish women between the ages of 18 and 25. The purpose of Junior Haddash is to provide members with a “stable social ground” within the Jewish community, and help them to “develop themselves intellectually and spiritually and to find for themselves a philosophy of life as young Jews in our perplexed age.” The various outreach and fundraising initiatives of Junior Hadassah, including the Jewish National Fund and the Henrietta Szold-Hadassah School of Nursing in Jerusalem, are outlined in the pamphlet, accompanied by black-and-white photographs and drawings. In 1925, Junior Hadassah assumed sole support of The Children’s Village of Meier Shfeyah, a refuge for World War I orphans and socially disadvantaged children, and several pages in the pamphlet are devoted to this project. Inspirational quotations from distinguished rabbis, Supreme Court justices, and philosophers are reproduced throughout, and the inside of the lower wrapper contains this call-to-action:
This is our summons to you to join us; to fall in behind the banner of the largest Zionist youth organization in America; to enroll in the dynamic constructive work of strengthening the newest democracy in the world, the Jewish State of Israel.
Junior Hadassah was founded in 1920 and both Alice Seligsberg and Henrietta Szold are credited with leading the organization in its early years. Though one of the main goals of Hadassah, the establishment of a State of Israel, was achieved in 1949 when Israel became the 51st member state accepted into the United Nations Assembly, the organization remains active in social outreach and medical research even today. In 1961, Junior Hadassah became fully integrated into National Hadassah (www.hadassah.org). No other copies of this pamphlet can be located on OCLC and RLG.
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