By Rose Zeitlin

Introduction by Bertha Szold Levin (Henrietta's sister)

New York: The Dial Press, 1952.

First edition, first printing.

Enhanced with a photo-portrait frontispiece and with eight photograph illustrations on black-and-white plates.

Zeitlin draws on in-depth research, unpublished letters and records, and numerous interviews with Szold's friends and associates both in Israel and America for this fascinating and historical biography.

Henrietta Szold was an early American Jewish women leader and responsible for raising health standards in Palestine, organizing infant welfare centers, creating hospitals, clinics, nurses training schools, playgrounds, lunch programs, school hygiene standards, setting up a social welfare system, and rescuing more than 13,000 Jewish children from Germany.

Small, mild grease/stain to lower front cover, some wear to upper shelf-edge, else very good in waxed blue cloth over grey linen with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a near fine very lightly rubbed dust jacket with tiny nicks to the upper shelf-edges; original $3.50 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 263 pages; index.

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