Henrietta Szold Resigns Vaad Leumi Post; Will Return to United States After Vacation

Henrietta Szold has resigned her post as Director of the Social Service Department of the Palestine Jewish National Council.

Miss Szold has departed for a vacation in Egypt with her sister, Mrs. Louis H. Levin of Baltimore. She will then return to Palestine, making a tour of the country, following which she will visit a number of European centres, preliminary to her return to the United States.

It is not known whether Miss Szold will undertake any other official post in the Zionist movement.

Miss Szold, who is seventy-three years old, is the outstanding woman Zionist leader. Founder of the Hadassah organization in the United States, Miss Szold has over an extended period played an outstanding role in the councils of the world Zionist movement.

For a period she served as a member of the Zionist Executive in Jerusalem, in charge of educational activities.

After this she became the director of the social service department of the Vaad Leumi, the post which she has now resigned.

Miss Szold was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 21, 1860, the daughter of Benjamin and Sophia Szold. She achieved a reputation as an author and translator before she came to prominence in the Zionist movement. For a period she served as editorial Secretary of the Jewish Publication Society of America.

She was the translator of Jewish Ethics by Lazarus; Legends of the Jews by Ginsberg; Hebrew Renaissance by Slouschz, and other works.

She compiled the index volume to the English edition of Gratz’s History of the Jews. From 1904 to 1908 she was editor of the American Jewish Year Book.

For a period she was the secretary for education of the Zionist Organization of America. Until 1926, she served as president of Hadassah which she founded in 1912. She is now the honorary president of the organization.