In the last year of Hitler's War, Henrietta
Szold, daughter of Baltimore, Maryland, editor of the American "Jewish Year Book", founder of the
Hadassah Medical Organisation, for six years (1927-1933) the executive officer
for health and education on the World Zionist Organisation's governing body,
for twelve years (1933-1945) the director of Youth Aliyah and as such one of
the principal rescuers of Jewish children from the Nazi paedophage, co-founder of Ihud, the only political party in what was then British Palestine to insist on a single-state, bi-national solution... died of
pneumonia where she would have wanted to die, in the hospital she herself had built, on
Mount Scopus, in Jerusalem, at the age of eighty-one. Chagall painted the windows.
And when I
had my own home in Baltimore, Maryland, I hung around my sitting-room the complete set of Chagall windows that I had found unwanted in a
GoodWill store in North Miami, and bought them for just $10 - 16"x10" black metal frames, stained glass, like the originals, but in miniature; they must have taken the artist hundreds of hours to make, and cost him just as much in dollars for the materials.
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