Miriam Freund-Rosenthal
Miriam Freund-Rosenthal (also: Miriam Freund, Miriam K. Freund) (b. in Brooklyn - d. 1999 Miami Beach at the age of 92) was an American Jewish civic leader. She is remembered for her contributions as President of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America.
Hadassah
Freund-Rosenthal was president of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America from 1956-1960.[1]
Freund-Rosenthal was a "central figure in initiating" the construction of a new campus for Hadassah Hospital in the Ein Karem neighborhood in the period when the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank made the Hospital's original campus on Mt. Scopus unusable and the hospital had been operating in a scattered set of temporary facilities.[2][3]
She is also known as the person who commissioned who commissioned Hospital's notable Chagall windows.[2][3]
Career
Freund-Rosenthal taught for over a decade in the New York City Public Schools, form the 1930s until the early 1940s.[3] She played a major role in raising the funds to found Brandeis University in 1948.[3]
Books
- Jewish Merchants in Colonial America (1939) [4]
- Jewels for a Crown (1963). About the Chagall windows in Jerusalem. [5]
- A Tapestry of Hadassah Memories(1995) Compiled by Freund-Rosenthal form teh writing and memories of over 200 Hadassah members.[6]
- In My Lifetime: Family, Community, Zion, by Miriam Freund-Rosenthal. A memoir and nostalgic look at recent Zionist history.[2]
Childhood, education, and marriage
Freund-Rosenthal was born in Brooklyn and reared in Harlem and Perth Amboy, New Jersey.[3] The child of Harry Kottler and the former Rebecca Zindler, she earned her bachelor's degree in 1925 from Hunter College in 1925, and went on to earn a master's degree and doctorate in history from New York University.[3]
In 1927, she married Milton B. Freund; he died in 1968. She married Harry Rosenthal, an importer of men's sportswear, in 1974.[7][8][3]
References
- ↑ "Hadassah Elects Miriam Freund". Washington Post. 19 September 1959. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- 1 2 3 Yosef, Yaakov (1 June 1990). "An Earlier". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pace, Eric (22 January 1999). "Miriam Freund-Rosenthal, 92, Zionist Leader". New York Times. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ↑ Morris, Richard B.. 1941. Book Review. Jewish Social Studies 3 (2). Indiana University Press: 222–24. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4464406.
- ↑ "Hadassah Gives Library "Jewels for a Crown," On Chagall's Work". The American Israelite. 16 January 1964. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ↑ Elliman, Wendy (11 August 1995). "Ladies With a Future". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ↑ "Miriam K. Freund Has Nuptials". New York Times. 16 September 1974.
- ↑ "Harry Rosenthal Founded Zionist Summer Camp". Chicago Tribune. 30 July 1989. Retrieved 3 May 2016.