Tamar de Sola Pool
Tamar de Sola Pool (née Hirshenson; 1890-1981), was an Israeli-American academic and zionist who served as president of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America from 1939 to 1943. Born in Jerusalem to Rabbi Chaim Hirschenson and Eva (Cohen) Hirschenson, the family moved to New Jersey in 1904, and Rabbi Hirschenson became a congregational rabbi. In 1917, Hirshenson married David de Sola Pool, the rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York.[1] She died in 1981.[2]
References
- "Tamar De Sola Pool | Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
- Waggoner, Walter H. (1981-06-02). "TAMAR DE SOLO POOL, 90, AUTHOR AND FORMER HEAD OF HADASSAH". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
External links
- Guide to the Hadassah Archives on Long-term Deposit at the American Jewish Historical Society
- Marjorie Lehman, Tamar de Sola Pool, at: the Jewish Women's Archive's Encyclopedia of Jewish Women
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