Hana Meisel

Hana Meisel

Hana Meisel or Meizel (1890 – 1972) ( _he. חנה מייזל) was a Jewish agronomist, feminist and Zionist.

Life

Meisel was born in Byelorussia [Who's who in Jewish History, written by Joan Comay, Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok, published by Routledge, 2002, ISBN:0415260302, page 145] in 1890, and immigrated to Palestine in 1909, during the Second Aliyah, where she became a noted agronomist, and was a founder of Haalamot ( _he. חוותהעלמות) agricultural school in 1911 (closed in 1917), and the agricultural school for girls at Nahalal.

She made considerable contributions to the feminist wing of the Zionist movement.

Meisel was a member of Poale Zion, and studied agriculture and natural science in Odessa, Switzerland and France.

She married Eliezer Shohat, also a well known figure in the Zionist movement.

She died in 1972.

References

External links

* [http://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/pubs/wp2.pdf Timeline of Women and Women’s Issues in the Yishuv and Israel, written by Shulamit Reinharz, Ph.D.]


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