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JUdaica / Zionisim - Lot of 9 pendants of the organization, American Mizrachi Women ,...
JUdaica / Zionisim – Lot of 9 pendants of the organization, American Mizrachi Women , Mother in Israel
AMIT (Mizrachi Women’s Organization of America), U.S. organization founded in 1925 by Bessie Goldstein *Gotsfeld to give religious Zionist women an independent role in the development of Palestine as a Jewish homeland. Prior to the group’s formation, women participated in the *Mizrachi movement through auxiliary organizations that raised funds for projects administered by men. When they decided to implement their own programs, the new American Mizrachi women confronted resistance from a male leadership accustomed to controlling movement coffers. In the face of the men’s unrelenting claims to their members’ resources, the Mizrachi women struggled in their first decade to maintain institutional integrity. In 1934, the group declared its complete autonomy from the men and stands today as the largest religious Zionist organization in the United States.