WIZO’s historical film collection explores the Women’s International Zionist Organization’s diverse body of work since the movement was founded in London in 1920 – starting with the period of British Mandatory rule of Palestine, through the nascent years of Israel, and all the way to the mid-1980s. The collection spans all of WIZO’s main areas of activity, including nursery-age education in daycare centers, creating youth villages and boarding schools across the country, helping immigrants integrate and assimilate, promoting and championing women and offering them professional training, various activities amongst non-Jewish populations across Israel, and assistance and aid to senior citizens and the elderly.
A major part of the collection features all kinds of comms and PR films commissioned by WIZO towards highlighting the organization’s role in looking after mother and child whilst also providing guidance to young mothers, and training for nursery nannies and nurses.
The collection also includes footage of WIZO day-care centers, creches, nurseries, youth clubs, boarding schools and youth villages founded by the movement in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and during the mass waves of 1950s immigration – including Hadassim, Nahalal, Nir Ha’Emek, Achuzat Yeladim, and Petah Tikvah’s Gan Vanof youth village, as well as several tech high school in Rehovot and Haifa, Tel Aviv’s WIZO France high school of the arts, and many more.
In the 1930s, WIZO began setting up dozens of professional training centres for women where a host of domestic industries were developed, and various craftworks taught. WIZO shops (that would later become clothing charity shops “Bigudit”) sold both Jewish and Arab women’s handiwork, thereby allowing them to support their families whilst keeping house and raising their children. In the 1970s, WIZO started placing a far greater emphasis on women’s issues, including feminism and domestic violence against women. The organization was behind the opening of numerous women’s shelters and domestic violence prevention centres, in addition to setting up legal aid centres in the community and lobbying for pro-women legislation in parliament.
Some of the prominent figures seen in the footage include the founders, presidents, and chairwomen of WIZO Israel and World WIZO: Rebecca Sieff, Raya Jaglom, Aya Dinstein, Hannah Levin, Ruth Isaacson, Shulamit Broida, Rachel Cohen-Kagan, Michal Modai, and others. Another standout figure in the collection is Dr. Helena Kagan, Israel’s first paediatric physician, and the founder of WIZO’s Childcare Division.
This collection is the property of WIZO Israel, and in part the property of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive. It has been entrusted with the Israeli Film Archive that is now in charge of its maintenance, scientific preservation, and ongoing availability and accessibility to the general public.
WIZO’s historical film collection explores the Women’s International Zionist Organization’s diverse body of work since the movement was founded in London in 1920 – starting with the period of British Mandatory rule of Palestine, through the nascent years of Israel, and all the way to the mid-1980s. The collection spans all of WIZO’s main areas of activity, including nursery-age education in daycare centers, creating youth villages and boarding schools across the country, helping immigrants integrate and assimilate, promoting and championing women and offering them professional training, various activities amongst non-Jewish populations across Israel, and assistance and aid to senior citizens and the elderly.
A major part of the collection features all kinds of comms and PR films commissioned by WIZO towards highlighting the organization’s role in looking after mother and child whilst also providing guidance to young mothers, and training for nursery nannies and nurses.
The collection also includes footage of WIZO day-care centers, creches, nurseries, youth clubs, boarding schools and youth villages founded by the movement in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and during the mass waves of 1950s immigration – including Hadassim, Nahalal, Nir Ha’Emek, Achuzat Yeladim, and Petah Tikvah’s Gan Vanof youth village, as well as several tech high school in Rehovot and Haifa, Tel Aviv’s WIZO France high school of the arts, and many more.
In the 1930s, WIZO began setting up dozens of professional training centres for women where a host of domestic industries were developed, and various craftworks taught. WIZO shops (that would later become clothing charity shops “Bigudit”) sold both Jewish and Arab women’s handiwork, thereby allowing them to support their families whilst keeping house and raising their children. In the 1970s, WIZO started placing a far greater emphasis on women’s issues, including feminism and domestic violence against women. The organization was behind the opening of numerous women’s shelters and domestic violence prevention centres, in addition to setting up legal aid centres in the community and lobbying for pro-women legislation in parliament.
Some of the prominent figures seen in the footage include the founders, presidents, and chairwomen of WIZO Israel and World WIZO: Rebecca Sieff, Raya Jaglom, Aya Dinstein, Hannah Levin, Ruth Isaacson, Shulamit Broida, Rachel Cohen-Kagan, Michal Modai, and others. Another standout figure in the collection is Dr. Helena Kagan, Israel’s first paediatric physician, and the founder of WIZO’s Childcare Division.
This collection is the property of WIZO Israel, and in part the property of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive. It has been entrusted with the Israeli Film Archive that is now in charge of its maintenance, scientific preservation, and ongoing availability and accessibility to the general public.
WIZO’s historical film collection explores the Women’s International Zionist Organization’s diverse body of work since the movement was founded in London in 1920 – starting with the period of British Mandatory rule of Palestine, through the nascent years of Israel, and all the way to the mid-1980s. The collection spans all of WIZO’s main areas of activity, including nursery-age education in daycare centers, creating youth villages and boarding schools across the country, helping immigrants integrate and assimilate, promoting and championing women and offering them professional training, various activities amongst non-Jewish populations across Israel, and assistance and aid to senior citizens and the elderly.
A major part of the collection features all kinds of comms and PR films commissioned by WIZO towards highlighting the organization’s role in looking after mother and child whilst also providing guidance to young mothers, and training for nursery nannies and nurses.
The collection also includes footage of WIZO day-care centers, creches, nurseries, youth clubs, boarding schools and youth villages founded by the movement in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and during the mass waves of 1950s immigration – including Hadassim, Nahalal, Nir Ha’Emek, Achuzat Yeladim, and Petah Tikvah’s Gan Vanof youth village, as well as several tech high school in Rehovot and Haifa, Tel Aviv’s WIZO France high school of the arts, and many more.
In the 1930s, WIZO began setting up dozens of professional training centres for women where a host of domestic industries were developed, and various craftworks taught. WIZO shops (that would later become clothing charity shops “Bigudit”) sold both Jewish and Arab women’s handiwork, thereby allowing them to support their families whilst keeping house and raising their children. In the 1970s, WIZO started placing a far greater emphasis on women’s issues, including feminism and domestic violence against women. The organization was behind the opening of numerous women’s shelters and domestic violence prevention centres, in addition to setting up legal aid centres in the community and lobbying for pro-women legislation in parliament.
Some of the prominent figures seen in the footage include the founders, presidents, and chairwomen of WIZO Israel and World WIZO: Rebecca Sieff, Raya Jaglom, Aya Dinstein, Hannah Levin, Ruth Isaacson, Shulamit Broida, Rachel Cohen-Kagan, Michal Modai, and others. Another standout figure in the collection is Dr. Helena Kagan, Israel’s first paediatric physician, and the founder of WIZO’s Childcare Division.
This collection is the property of WIZO Israel, and in part the property of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive. It has been entrusted with the Israeli Film Archive that is now in charge of its maintenance, scientific preservation, and ongoing availability and accessibility to the general public.
WIZO’s historical film collection explores the Women’s International Zionist Organization’s diverse body of work since the movement was founded in London in 1920 – starting with the period of British Mandatory rule of Palestine, through the nascent years of Israel, and all the way to the mid-1980s. The collection spans all of WIZO’s main areas of activity, including nursery-age education in daycare centers, creating youth villages and boarding schools across the country, helping immigrants integrate and assimilate, promoting and championing women and offering them professional training, various activities amongst non-Jewish populations across Israel, and assistance and aid to senior citizens and the elderly.
A major part of the collection features all kinds of comms and PR films commissioned by WIZO towards highlighting the organization’s role in looking after mother and child whilst also providing guidance to young mothers, and training for nursery nannies and nurses.
The collection also includes footage of WIZO day-care centers, creches, nurseries, youth clubs, boarding schools and youth villages founded by the movement in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and during the mass waves of 1950s immigration – including Hadassim, Nahalal, Nir Ha’Emek, Achuzat Yeladim, and Petah Tikvah’s Gan Vanof youth village, as well as several tech high school in Rehovot and Haifa, Tel Aviv’s WIZO France high school of the arts, and many more.
In the 1930s, WIZO began setting up dozens of professional training centres for women where a host of domestic industries were developed, and various craftworks taught. WIZO shops (that would later become clothing charity shops “Bigudit”) sold both Jewish and Arab women’s handiwork, thereby allowing them to support their families whilst keeping house and raising their children. In the 1970s, WIZO started placing a far greater emphasis on women’s issues, including feminism and domestic violence against women. The organization was behind the opening of numerous women’s shelters and domestic violence prevention centres, in addition to setting up legal aid centres in the community and lobbying for pro-women legislation in parliament.
Some of the prominent figures seen in the footage include the founders, presidents, and chairwomen of WIZO Israel and World WIZO: Rebecca Sieff, Raya Jaglom, Aya Dinstein, Hannah Levin, Ruth Isaacson, Shulamit Broida, Rachel Cohen-Kagan, Michal Modai, and others. Another standout figure in the collection is Dr. Helena Kagan, Israel’s first paediatric physician, and the founder of WIZO’s Childcare Division.
This collection is the property of WIZO Israel, and in part the property of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive. It has been entrusted with the Israeli Film Archive that is now in charge of its maintenance, scientific preservation, and ongoing availability and accessibility to the general public.
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