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Ela Bauer

Ela Bauer is an associate professor at Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv. She received her PhD from New York University. In 2019 she was Research Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  She researches the intellectual and cultural life of Polish Jewry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as the history of the Jewish press and the history of the Zionist movement.  

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Zionism in Galicia and Poland, 1880-1939

Prior to World War I, few women joined Zionist organizations in Russian Poland, though Galician women did start joining the movement. After the unification of Poland, more and more women joined Zionist organizations, especially socialist groups, and a branch of the Women’s International Zionist Organization was founded in Poland.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Ela Bauer." (Viewed on March 18, 2024) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/bauer-ela>.