Henrietta Szold

“Francine Klagsbrun’s biography arrives at a moment when Zionism is once again a flashpoint for protest and provocation worldwide. It’s a timely reminder of Szold’s vision for a land that Jews and Arabs alike could call home.”—Diane Cole, Wall Street Journal

“Klagsbrun is the ideal biographer for Szold. Deeply learned in Jewish life and culture, she recounts both the heartbreak and the triumphs of a great Jewish leader. . . . It’s a compelling and inspiring story.”—Bob Goldfarb, Jewish Book Council

“Deftly shows how one woman’s life was entwined with the creation of two countries, a multicultural United States born in the ashes of the Civil War, and Israel, which rose from the horrors of World War II.”—Adrienne Ross Scanlan, New York Journal of Books

“Francine Klagsbrun’s resplendently transfiguring biography of Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold will illumine and excite and wake and shake you to a new understanding of a remarkable woman of valor.”—Cynthia Ozick, author of Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays

“Compelling and engrossing, Klagsbrun’s portrait is particularly impressive in integrating the personal elements of Szold’s life with her professional and public activities and immense and enduring achievements, thereby creating a holistic picture of this extraordinary woman.”—Rabbi David Ellenson, author of Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice: Studies in Tradition and Modernity

“Francine Klagsbrun is not only a vital scholar of Jewish history, she is also a sympathetic and eloquent writer who brings Henrietta Szold and her accomplishments to vivid life on the page in this deeply impressive and moving book.”—Hilma Wolitzer, author of Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket