Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold

USA 2025 | Director: Abby Ginzberg | English & Hebrew with English subtitles | 79 minutes

Documentary

A visionary leader, humanitarian, and one of history’s most influential, yet under-recognized, American Jewish women, Henrietta Szold left an enduring legacy that continues to reverberate to this day. After visiting Palestine in 1909, she founded Hadassah, a Jewish women’s service organization that would create a vital link between American Jewish women and communities in Palestine, empowering and inspiring hundreds of thousands of Jewish women to invest their energies in a cause that transcended their own personal lives. Through this organization, she established the region’s modern healthcare system, built on a mandate to treat Arabs and Jews equally. Later, she spearheaded Youth Aliyah, an operation that rescued 11,000 Jewish children from Nazi Europe in the 1930’s and transported them to safety in Palestine. Combining archival material, interviews and dramatic re-enactments, Peabody award-winning director Abby Ginzberg gives long-overdue recognition to Szold’s legacy and brings her inspiring story to life.  

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