Hadassah was born to plant the seeds of early Zionism, enriching the soil in which an emerging state grew while also strengthening an American Jewish community.
Shapiro has overlaid her story with the slightly implausible tale of the fictional Alizée Benoit, a promising French-born Jewish artist who mysteriously disappears.
As Philippe Sands writes in this indispensable book, “international law offered few constraints on the majority’s treatment of minorities and no rights for individuals."