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Prename: | Sophia |
Surname: | Berger Mohl |
Name of birth: | Berger |
Birthday: | 1882 |
Place of birth: | La Crosse, WI |
Date of death: | 06/22/1958 |
Place of death: | Haifa |
Married to: | Emanuel N. Mohl |
Profession husband: | Real estate agent |
Education: | 1899-1903 University of Chicago |
Career: | Social worker; 1917–18 treasurer of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization, in New York, fundraiser, American Zionist Medical Unit for Palestine; 1918 emigrates to Palestine; 1941 returns to the United States, social worker, executive of the Young Women’s Hebrew Association (YWHA) |
Memberships: | American Association of University Women (AAUW); 1932 founder of the Palestine Association of University Women |
Biographical literature: | Obituary, *New York Times*, July 2, 1958: 29; Jacob Rader Marcus (ed.), *The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography*, vol. 2 (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson, 1994), 444 |
Major works: | “History of the Israel (Palestine) Association of University Women” (typescript, 1950, IFUW Archives) |