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123879
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2013.
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Rose Jacobs and the organization among whose leaders she numbered-Hadassah, the American Women's Zionist organization-made, during the 1930s and 1940s, important and unprecedented inroads into the Zionist establishment. Jacobs and other Hadassah women used their organization's size and financial power to claim a voice in the making of Zionist policy both in the United States and in the Jewish community in Palestine. The political, international, and economic crises of these two decades enabled Hadassah to expand out of the traditionally female areas to which it had originally been restricted-health and education-and make its voice heard on other issues, among them Jewish-Arab relations. This culminated in Jacobs' election to the Jewish Agency Executive in 1938. Hadassah broke the limitations under which Jewish women's organizations had theretofore operated and used its newfound influence to offer alternatives to the male Zionist leadership's cultural, social, and political doctrines.
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133744
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2014.
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This article examines how the Jewish vote was brought to bear in the presidential elections of 1944 and in the mid-term elections of 194. It also reveals the essential difficulties that American Zionist leaders faced in activating the Jewish vote, and their efforts to cope with the complex challenges of ethnic politics in the US of the 1940s. Documents of American Zionist leaders at the time show that the political use of the Jewish vote, so simple, so natural to the Zionist establishment in Palestine and in the WZO, presented a predicament for the Americans. It began with the need to cover up the very fact of its use and went on to set the political and social identity of some American Zionist leaders on a collision course with the implications of the ethnic vote in the American political arena.
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073591
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