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Szold is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Benjamin Szold (1829–1902), Hungarian-American rabbi *Henrietta Szold (1860–1945), founder of the Hadassah Women's Organization *Nadia Szold (born 28 September 1984), filmmaker * Robert Szold (1889–1977), American lawyer, Zionist movement leader * Zip Szold (1888-1979), fourth president of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America See also *Kfar Szold Kfar Szold ( he, כְּפַר סָאלְד, ''lit.'' Szold Village) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Hula Valley in the Galilee Panhandle, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In it had a population o ...
, a kibbutz in Israel, named after Henrietta Szold {{surname, Szold ...
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Henrietta Szold
Henrietta Szold ( , ; December 21, 1860 – February 13, 1945) was a U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandatory Palestine dedicated to a binational solution. Early life and education Henrietta Szold was born in Baltimore, Maryland, December 21, 1860. She was the daughter of Rabbi Benjamin Szold of Hungarian birth, who was the spiritual leader of Baltimore's Temple Oheb Shalom. She was the eldest of eight daughters, and her younger sister Adele Szold-Seltzer (1876-1940) was the translator of the first American edition of Maya the Bee. In 1877, Henrietta Szold graduated from Western High School. For fifteen years she taught at Miss Adam's School and Oheb Shalom religious school, and gave Bible and history courses for adults. Highly educated in Jewish studies, she edited Professor Marcus Jastrow's Talmudic Dictionary. To further her own education, she attended ...
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Robert Szold
Robert Szold (1889–1977) was a 20th-century American lawyer, best known as a champion for the reform of child labor law and as a Zionist movement leader as well as a founding partner of Szold, Brandwen, Meyers and Altern (1918). Background Robert Szold was born on September 29, 1889, in Streator, Illinois. His parents were merchants: Adolph Szold of Berehove, Zakarpatska, Ukraine, and Rachel Esther Gumbiner of Poland. He had three siblings. In 1909, he received a BA from Knox College. In 1912, he received a law degree with honors from Harvard University. Career In 1915, Szold was appointed Assistant Attorney General of Puerto Rico under United States Solicitor General John W. Davis until 1918. A brief that Szold wrote at that time led to the first-ever U.S. federal child labor law. In 1918, Szold returned to private practice and helped found the law firm of Szold, Brandwen, Meyers and Altman. (At some time during the early 1920s, the firm was known as Lowenthal, Szo ...
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Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization Of America
Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America is an American Jews, American Jewish volunteer List of women's organizations, women's organization. Founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, it is one of the largest international Jewish organizations, with nearly 300,000 members in the United States."Building towers in the sky"
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Hadassah fundraises for community programs and health initiatives in Israel, including the Hadassah Medical Organization, two leading research hospitals in Jerusalem. In the US, the organization advocates on behalf of women's rights, religious autonomy and Israel–United States relations, US–Israel diplomacy. In Israel, Hadassah supports health educ ...
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Benjamin Szold
Benjamin Szold (15 November 1829 in Nemes-Kürt Kingdom of Hungary, (now Zemianske Sady, Slovakia), – 31 July 1902 in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia) was an American rabbi and scholar. Szold studied under Rabbis Jacob Fischer of Shalgaw, Wolf Kollin of Vrbové, and Benjamin Wolf Löw at the Pressburg Yeshiva (Austria-Hungary), Pressburg Yeshiva, and received the rabbinical authorization from Judah Assod of Bur and Simon Sidon of Tyrnau. In 1848, he studied in Vienna, but when the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, revolution of that year broke out he went to Bratislava, Pressburg. From 1849 to 1855 he tutored in private families in Hungary, and in the latter year entered the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau and the University of Breslau, where he remained until 1858. While a student he officiated during the holy days at Brzeg, Brieg, Silesia (1857), and at Stockholm, Sweden (1858). In 1859, he accepted a call from the Temple Oheb Shalom (Baltimore, Maryland) in whose servi ...
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Zip Szold
Zipporah Szold (née Falk, 1888–1979) was the fourth president of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America, serving from 1928 to 1930. Background Zipporah Falk was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1888. She studied at Bryn Mawr College and graduated in 1909. Career Szold's achievements during her time as Hadassah president included fundraising for the Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem and working to increase awareness related to Palestine at the time. She also edited the Hadassah Newsletter and served as the United Nations chairwoman for the organization. Personal life and death Zip Falk married Robert Szold, Henrietta Szold's cousin and president of the Zionist Organization of America. Robert Szold was also a partner in Lowenthal, Szold and Brandwen of 43 Exchange Place, New York City. Max Lowenthal Szold died 1979 in New York City at the age of 91. See also * Robert Szold * Henrietta Szold * Benjamin Szold Benjamin Szold (15 November 1829 ...
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Nadia Szold
Nadia Szold (born 28 September 1984) is a film director, producer and writer. She began working in theater in her teens in New England. After reading ''Waiting for Godot'' at 17, Nadia Szold formed Cojones Company. Fourteen plays later, she founded Cinema Imperfecta out of her apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn. ''Hope & Anchor'', ''Thievery'', ''The Persian Love Cake'' and ''Some Kinda Fuckery'' were the first short films produced and directed under its banner in Paris and New York. Simultaneously, Szold worked for Robin O'Hara and Scott Macaulay of Forensic Films. She also earned a degree from Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School. Her first feature film, which she both produced and wrote, ''Joy de V.'', premiered at Slamdance Film Festival, Slamdance in 2013 to critical acclaim and won a Special Jury Mention. The film starred Evan Louison, Josephine de La Baume, Iva Gocheva, and Claudia Cardinale. Her second feature, ''Mariah'', starring Dakota Goldhor and Evan Luison Louison, was s ...
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