Henrietta Szold was an American Zionist leader, the eldest of eight daughters born to Rabbi Benjamin Szold, a Hungarian immigrant and spiritual leader of Baltimore's Temple Oheb Shalom, and Sophie Schaar Szold. She excelled academically, graduating as valedictorian from Western High School in Baltimore in 1877. Szold taught at Miss Adams' School and the Oheb Shalom religious school for 15 years, established the first American night school for Russian Jewish immigrants offering English and vocational training, and attended public lectures at Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Institute. From 1893 to 1916, she served as the first editor of the Jewish Publication Society, editing the first American Jewish Year Book (1904-1908), contributing to the Jewish Encyclopedia, and overseeing translations including from German. A trailblazing Zionist, Szold was the only woman on key committees like the Federation of American Zionists' executive (1898) and the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs during World War I. She founded Hadassah in 1912, pioneering health initiatives in Palestine such as visiting nurses, hospitals, and infant welfare stations serving Jews and Arabs. Immigrating to Mandatory Palestine in 1933 at age 73, she directed Youth Aliyah, rescuing over 30,000 Jewish children from Nazi Europe, supported binationalist groups like Brit Shalom and co-founded Ihud in 1942 opposing partition. Never married after an unrequited romance with Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, she died at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, which she helped establish.