Miriam Freund-Rosenthal

Miriam Kottler Freund-Rosenthal (1906 – January 16, 1999) was an American civic leader, best known for her contributions as President of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America.

Personal life Freund-Rosenthal was born in Brooklyn on January 1, 1906, and reared in Harlem and Perth Amboy, New Jersey. The child of Harry Kottler and Rebecca Zindler, a member of the first Zionist women’s group on the East Side, the Daughters of Zion. She earned her bachelor's degree from Hunter College in 1925, and went on to earn a master's degree and doctorate in American history from New York University in 1935, where she joined the sorority Alpha Epsilon Phi.

In 1927, she married Milton B. Freund, with whom she had two sons, Matthew and Harry, before his death of a heart attack in 1968. She remarried to Harry Rosenthal, an importer of men's sportswear, in 1974, and thereafter moved to his Saint Paul, Minnesota home.

In 1999, Freund-Rosenthal died in Miami Beach at the age of 92. two Youth Survey committees, and nongovernmental representative to the United Nations. Freund-Rosenthal's doctoral thesis. Jewels for a Crown (1963). About the Chagall windows in Jerusalem. In My Lifetime: Family, Community, Zion, (1989). A memoir and nostalgic look at recent Zionist history. A Tapestry of Hadassah Memories (1994). Compiled by Freund-Rosenthal from the writing and memories of over 200 Hadassah members.