Her story is an inspiring example to our young people. and our country takes on a glory in the eyes of people in foreign lands when they perceive what has been done in Israel. both by Henrietta Szold personally and by the Jewish women of America through the organization she founded. Mr. Speaker. in 1882. as the tide of Jewish immigration into the United States. swelled by the exiles forced out of Russia by antiSemitic governmental policies. reached overwhelming proportions. Henrietta Szold perceived that the situation of the Jewish immigrants was becoming desperate. She perceived that these new immigrants needed a pathway out of their old land of despair and repression into the new land of hope and opportunity. She met them as friend and kinswoman. collected groups into a night school in Baltimore. and proceeded to introduce them to the English language. to American ways. and to the skills they would need in order to make a living in their new land. The school grew gradually from 30 pupils to hundreds.
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