Nadja Stein

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Nadja Stein (born February 2, 1891 in Odessa , Russian Empire ; died December 14, 1961 in Haifa ) was an Austrian-Israeli women's functionary.

Life

Nadja Brodsky was the daughter of an oil engineer who died in 1896. Her mother moved with the children to Vienna , where Stein passed the teacher examination for history and geography in 1911. She worked at the reform school of Eugenie Schwarzwald . Since she was not allowed to continue studying as a woman in Austria, she went to Zurich in 1916 , where she received her doctorate in economics and sociology at the University of Zurich in 1919 . In 1917 she married the Hungarian Andor (Herbert) Ornstein (1894–1972), they later called themselves "Stein". In 1922 the daughter Michaela Ornstein was born.

In 1921 she joined the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) at the Karlovy Vary Congress . With Anitta Müller-Cohen , she founded the Austrian section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In Romania she founded the national organization of WIZO and organized help for the Jews who fled the Ukraine from the pogroms . In 1924 she made her first trip to Palestine to a conference of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). In order to organize aid for the Ukrainian Jews, she stayed in the USA and Canada between 1924 and 1926, where she appeared as a speaker for Hadassah , founded by Henrietta Szold , and did leadership work for the JNF in New York City . During this time she was a correspondent for the Berlin Jewish Rundschau . In 1927 she founded and headed a national section of WIZO in Berlin .

In 1932 she went to Palestine again and stayed there in view of the rise of the National Socialists in Germany . In Tel Aviv, she became a public relations official at WIZO and editor of the WIZO organ. She published her articles in various Jewish newspapers and magazines. In 1937 she participated in Zurich on 20th Zionist Congress in part. Arthur Bryks painted a portrait of her in 1937.

In 1949 she supervised the reconstruction of WIZO in the Netherlands. In 1950 she received a two-year scholarship for further training in settlement geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , which also took her to England, the USA, Denmark and Sweden. In 1952 she was employed by the municipality of Haifa for the sociological support of settlement projects and founded care facilities for European immigrants.

After her retirement, she founded an old people's club in Haifa. In 2012 her daughter Michaela Aloni handed the estate over to the Central Zionist Archive .

Fonts (selection)

  • Nadja Ornstein-Brodsky: The municipal votes in Zurich from 1893 to 1917 . [With 11 tables in the text.] Vienna: Genossenschaftsverlag der "Neuen Erde". Zurich. Univ. State Science Diss. 1921/22.
  • Expose about the development of hand weaving as a home industry in Erez Israel .
  • The Hasidic painter Arthur Bryks , in: Menorah. Jewish family paper for science / art and literature , Vienna 1929
  • Jacob de Haas : Louis D. Brandeis: a biographical sketch; with particular reference to its contribution to Jewish and Zionist history; with the text of his speeches, 1912-1924 . Translation of Nadja Stein. Berlin: Fischer, 1930

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 725
  • Michaela Aloni and Erna Meyer (Eds.): Dr. Nadia Stein in memory . Hebrew, English, German. Haifa 1962 DNB

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data according to HdE, Hohenems gives Černý Kostelec as place of birth .
  2. ^ The Papers of Nadia Stein , at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Nadja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brodsky, Nadja (maiden name); Ornstein-Brodsky, Nadja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Israeli women's functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1961
Place of death Haifa