Shulamith Nardi Explained

Shulamith Nardi
Birth Name:Shulamith Schwartz
Birth Date:April 23, 1909
Birth Place:New York City
Death Date:May 3, 2002
Occupation:Translator, writer, editor, educator

Shulamith Schwartz Nardi (Hebrew: שולמית שוורץ נרדי; April 23, 1909 – May 3, 2002) was an American-born translator, writer, editor, and educator, based in Israel after 1950.

Early life and education

Shulamith Schwartz was born in New York City, the daughter of Avraham Shmuel Schwartz and Fannie Masliansky Schwartz. Her father was a physician and a poet; her maternal grandfather Zvi Hirsch Masliansky was a leader of the Zionist Organization of America.[1] [2] She graduated from Barnard College in 1928. She earned a master's degree at Columbia University.[3]

Career

Shulamith Schwartz was national president of Junior Hadassah from 1931 to 1933.[4] [5] She moved to Tel Aviv with her new husband in 1934. She taught high school English, and wrote for the Jewish Frontier periodical. She spoke about Palestine in Montreal in 1936,[6] and was a delegate to the Twentieth Zionist Congress in Zürich in 1937. During World War II, she lived in New York again, where she was editor of the Hadassah Newsletter[7] and a member of the American Zionist Emergency Council. She toured giving lectures to Jewish community organizations.[8] [9] [10]

Nardi returned to Israel in 1951, and became an English professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1953.[11] In 1961, she was an alternate member of Israel's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly.[12] Beginning in the 1960s, she held an Israeli government appointment as presidential advisor on diaspora affairs. She translated from Hebrew into English several works by Zalman Shazar, and one of the Dead Sea Scrolls.[13] She also conducted a study group on Jewish literature.[14]

Publications

Personal life

Schwartz married a fellow Columbia University graduate student, Kiev-born educator Noah Nardi, in 1933. Their daughters Meira and Zvia were born in New York during the 1940s. She died in 2002, at the age of 93.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nardi . Zviah . Biography of Zvi Hirsch Masliansky . 2024-01-08 . Cleveland Jewish History.
  2. News: 1935-03-08 . Maslianskys Honored on 60th Anniversary . 2024-01-08 . The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . 20 . Newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: Nardi . Zvia . Shulamith Nardi . 2024-01-08 . Jewish Women's Archive . en.
  4. News: 1932-11-03 . Zionist and 2 Hadassah Groups Hear Miss Shulamith Schwartz . 2024-01-08 . The Courier-News . 10 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1954-11-21 . Mrs. Nardi to Speak at Zionist Meeting . 2024-01-09 . The Indianapolis Star . 49 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: 1936-12-08 . Palestine Rebuilt by Unity of Jews; Miss Shuliamith Schwartz Describes Development to Hadassah . 2024-01-08 . The Gazette . 8 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: 1944-11-19 . Zionists To Note Declaration of Balfour Today . 2024-01-08 . Hartford Courant . 13 . Newspapers.com.
  8. News: 1939-11-30 . Shulamith Schwartz Hadassah's Speaker; Noted Speaker Favors Local Organization with Visit Here . 2024-01-08 . New Castle News . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  9. News: 1940-01-07 . Shulamith Schwartz, Noted Jewish Lecturer, to Appear at Faber Hall Monday Night . 2024-01-08 . The Tyler Courier-Times . 11.
  10. News: 1940-05-20 . Meeting, Convention Attendance on List of Hadassah Activities . 2024-01-08 . The Central New Jersey Home News . 7 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: Raymond . Steve . 1959-04-19 . Education is Development Key, Israelis Believe . 2024-01-09 . The Tampa Tribune . 58 . Newspapers.com.
  12. Web site: 1961-09-06 . Golda Meir to Head Israel's Delegation at U.N. General Assembly Session . 2024-01-08 . Jewish Telegraphic Agency . en-US.
  13. Book: Nardi, Shulamith Schwartz . The seven scrolls . 1957 . Jerusalem, Hebrew University in collaboration with the Shrine of the Book . Internet Archive.
  14. Book: Shulewitz, Malka Hillel . Forgotten Millions: The Modern Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands . 2000-10-27 . A&C Black . 978-0-8264-4764-7 . xi . en.
  15. News: 1966-11-11 . Random House to Print Books Examining Jewish Life in 20th Century . 2024-01-08 . The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle . 9 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: Gilroy . Harry . November 6, 1966 . Random House Series on Jewish Life Today Set; General Editor a Professor at Hebrew University Books to Appear in '69 . 2024-01-09 . The New York Times . 132 . en.
  17. Book: Nardi, Shulamith Schwartz . The Shrine of the Book and its scrolls . 1965 . [Jerusalem, Shrine of the Book, the D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Centre for Biblical Manuscripts, the Israel Museum] . Internet Archive.

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