Henrietta Szold

Francine Klagsbrun is the author of numerous books, including the award-winning Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel. She has been a columnist for Jewish Week and Moment, is a contributing editor to Lilith, and is on the editorial board of Hadassah Magazine. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, Ms. magazine, and other national publications.

“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 JournalSelected as a “Holiday Gift Book: Biography” by Wall Street JournalWinner of the Summer 2024 Natan Notable Book Award, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council“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