@article{26845101-90eb-48e6-842a-0745932cdaf6,
author = {Katarzyna Czerwonogóra},
title = {Women’s Zionist Movement in Europe at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries},
journal = {Studia Judaica},
volume = {2015},
number = {Nr 2 (36)},
year = {2016},
issn = {1506-9729},
pages = {271-291},keywords = {Zionism; women’s movement; Puah Rakovsky; WIZO},
abstract = {The article presents the process that led to the creation of the Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) in 1920 in London. The main reason for creating a separate international women’s organization within the Zionist movement was the lack of support for women’s ideas in the male-dominated structures. The trigger for the establishment of a separate women’s group after World War I was a trip to Palestine by three middle-class British Jewish women, the wives of high-ranking clerks in the British Mandate for Palestine. However, the creation of WIZO at that particular time was an outcome of several political and cultural phenomena: the beginnings of emancipation of Jewish women in Eastern Europe during the Haskalah, processes of emancipation of Jews in Western Europe, the development of modern nationalisms and anti-Semitism, and the international recognition of the Zionist movement. These conditions led to the creation of Jewish women’s networks, which were the pre-existing condition for the creation of WIZO.},
doi = {10.4467/24500100STJ.15.012.4603},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-judaica/article/syjonistyczny-ruch-kobiet-w-europie-na-przelomie-xix-i-xx-wieku}
}