Henrietta Szold was a U.S. Jewish scholar and Zionist leader. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 21, 1860. The daughter of a rabbi, she studied Talmud, taught school for many years and then worked for the Jewish Publication Society for over two decades. Her commitment to Zionism was heightened by a trip to Palestine in 1909. She founded the Jewish women's organization Hadassah in 1912 and served as its president until 1926. In 1933 working with Hadassah in Palestine, she started Youth Aliyah which rescued some 22,000 Jewish children from Nazi Europe. Szold lived the rest of her life in Palestine and died in Jerusalem on February 13, 1945.
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