To this day Henrietta Szold is regarded as one of the genuine heroic figures of American-Jewish history. She was one of the few women to play a foundational role in creating meaningful American Jewish culture. Szold... was constrained by the limited opportunities that the Jewish world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries could offer a woman of her brilliance, organizational abilities and vision. Yet, her influence extended beyond the United States, to the Jewish people. She helped shape the political, cultural and social worlds of Jews, creating a new world of opportunity for Jewish women. Even before her death in l945, she had become an icon for the practical idealism that could build a Jewish state.