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Mark A. Raider

Mark A. Raider is assistant professor of modern Jewish history at the State University of New York at Albany. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University. He is the author of Papers of Admiral Lewis L. Strauss: Manuscript Collection, 1908–1973 and is at work on American Jews and the Zionist Movement.

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Pioneer Women in the United States

Pioneer Women was created in The United States in 1925 to help the pioneer women’s cooperatives in Palestine through American-based philanthropic efforts. During its first convention in 1926 in New York City, the group articulated goals to help create a homeland in Palestine, to support Mo’ezet ha-Po’alot, and to educate American Jewish women to a more conscious role in American society.