Daughters from Afar: Profiles of Israeli Women.
Israeli Women’s History
[Judaica]. Stern, Geraldine. Daughters From Afar: Profiles of Israeli Women. New York: Bloch Publishing Company, (1963).
8vo.; brick cloth, stamped in gilt; as new; green, brown and orange pictorial dust-jacket, lightly rubbed; price-clipped.
First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed: For Evie—May you enjoy knowing these wonderful women—Geraldine Stern October, 1963. An early work in Israeli women’s history that provides the life stories of thirteen notable “women living in Israel today,” including Foreign Secretary Golda Meir, kibbitznik Miriam Baratz, and Anne Marie Lambert, a French Resistance heroine who carried her infant child on the first boat to Israel and who later became a member of Israel’s diplomatic corps.
On my first trip to Israel, in 1949, I was deeply impressed by the stories of the people I met. Particularly the women. I suppose I identified with them not only as a Jew but as a woman. I couldn’t help comparing their lives with the lives of women in America. Ease and comfort were almost unknown to them. But it didn’t seem terribly important. Those who had come earlier were pioneers with the men, interested in building a nation, developing an atmosphere where Jews could live free from anti-Semitism. Those who came later had, in most cases, lived through such earth-shaking experiences that they were glad just to be alive...
The title plays on a section of the Old Testament: “Bring my sons from afar / And my daughters from the ends of the earth” (Isaiah 43:6).
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