Shochat

Though the collective settlement under the leadership of Mania and Israel at Sejera lasted only one year, Mania Shochat considered it a success as a socio-economic experiment, a proof that women were as competent as men at agricultural work, and a means of fostering Jewish self-defense.

Mania Wilbushewitch Shochat. 2009

Mania Wilbushewitch Shochat (1880 – 1961), married Israel Shochat (1886 – 1961) 5.

Olga Belkind-Hankin. 2009

In 1924, when the Zionist leader Rahel Yanait (later rahel ben-zvi) sought American Jewish financial support, she turned to the women who previously participated in the ad hoc committee organized by Shochat.

Pioneer Women in the United States. 2009

Mania Shochat continued to devote the rest of her life to Jewish socio-economic and self-defense causes, social work in Palestine, and the hope for peace between Jews and Arabs.

Mania Wilbushewitch Shochat. 2009

In December 1921 Medem accused Shochat of collaborating with the tsarist authorities and acting as their agent.

Mania Wilbushewitch Shochat. 2009

Shochat decried the inactivity of the local party and informed her Palestine comrades that the American movement was but a “tempest in a teacup.”

Pioneer Women in the United States. 2009

Returning to Israel, she was, at age seventy, lauded in the Israeli press as “the grandmother of the kibbutz” and wrote diverse articles for Zionist publications, including a lengthy appreciation of Mania Shochat, who had died in 1961.

Irma Levy Lindheim. 2009

Shochat introduced Lindheim to kibbutz life and to the possibility of Arab-Jewish friendship.

Irma Levy Lindheim. 2009

Neither the campaign nor the committee, however, was a top priority for Shochat.

Pioneer Women in the United States. 2009

Mania Shochat succeeded in raising several thousand dollars from private funders in the United States.

Mania Wilbushewitch Shochat. 2009