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Shoshana Parsitz

Shoshana Persitz was an educator, publisher and General Zionists politician who served in the first three Knessets and received the Israel Prize in education in 1968.

1892 to 1969Founding the Omanut publishing houseChairing the Knesset Education CommitteeSpreading Hebrew culture through TarbutIsrael Prize in education

Born: 16 November 1892, Kyiv
Died: 22 March 1969, Tel Aviv
Occupation: salonnière, politician, educator, publisher
Party: General Zionists
Education: Faculty of Arts of Paris, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Founded: Omanut (1917)

Shoshana Parsitz was born in 1892 in Kyiv

Shoshana Persitz was born Rosalia Zlatopolsky in Kyiv in 1892. Her father, Hillel Zlatopolsky, was a banker, Zionist activist and a co-founder of Keren Hayesod. She learned to read Hebrew from a private tutor and later studied in Frankfurt and in Kyiv.

In 1911 she married Yosef Yitzhak Persitz, and the couple settled in Moscow. She studied literature in Moscow and Paris and earned a degree in literature from the Sorbonne. From 1909 she was active in Tarbut, a group that spread Hebrew culture.

In 1917 she founded the Omanut publishing house with her husband. She was a delegate to the Zionist Congress in London in 1920. In 1925 she immigrated to Mandatory Palestine.

From 1926 to 1935 she sat on the Tel Aviv City Council and headed the city's education department. She was elected to the first, second and third Knessets for the General Zionists and chaired the Education and Culture Committee. She died in 1969, and a street in north Tel Aviv bears her name.