Irma Lindheim
Irma L. Lindheim (1886–1978), born in New York, was a Zionist.[1][2] She served as the only Jewish female first lieutenant in the Motor Corps of America during World War I.[1][2] Lindheim was the second president of Hadassah, from 1926 to 1928, and published the book Immortal Adventure in 1928 concerning her first trip to what was then called Palestine, which was organized by Manya Shochat and on which she was accompanied by Bertha Guggenheim.[2][3][4]
In 1922 she entered the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, becoming the first woman in the U.S. to attend a Jewish seminary, though she eventually left for the "greater cause of Zionism."[5] While there, in 1923, she petitioned the faculty to change her status from that of special student to a regular student in the rabbinic program; in response, in May of that year they unanimously recommended the admission of women to the Institute on the same basis as men.[1]
In 1933 she moved to Kibbutz Mishmar Ha'emek.[2] She helped to create two other kibbutzim, and was called "the grandmother of the kibbutz" by the Israeli press.[2]
In 1962 she published her autobiography Parallel Quest: A Search of a Person and a People.[6]
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External links
- Guide to the Hadassah Archives on Long-term Deposit at the American Jewish Historical Society
- The personal papers of Irma Lindheim are kept at the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. The notation of the record group is A274.
