At age 90: Researcher and historian Prof. Dvora Hacohen passed away
For decades, Prof. Hacohen researched the waves of immigration that shaped Israel. She wrote the biography of Henrietta Szold alongside books on the mass immigration in the 1950s and on the rescue of Youth Aliyah…
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Israel has lost one of its foremost scholars of immigration history. Professor Dvora Hacohen, who died at 90, spent decades documenting the waves of aliyah that built the country. Her biography of Henrietta Szold and her research on the mass immigration of the 1950s and the rescue of Youth Aliyah children are foundational texts. Her absence leaves a gap in the study of Israel's formative demographic story.