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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.
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Mania Wilbushewitch Shochat (1880 – 1961), married Israel Shochat (1886 – 1961) 5.
Olga Belkind-Hankin. 2009
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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.
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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.
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In December 1921 Medem accused Shochat of collaborating with the tsarist authorities and acting as their agent.
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Shochat decried the inactivity of the local party and informed her Palestine comrades that the American movement was but a “tempest in a teacup.”
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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
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Shochat introduced Lindheim to kibbutz life and to the possibility of Arab-Jewish friendship.
Irma Levy Lindheim. 2009
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Neither the campaign nor the committee, however, was a top priority for Shochat.
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Mania Shochat succeeded in raising several thousand dollars from private funders in the United States.
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