Shulamith Nardi

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.{{Cite web |last=Nardi |first=Zviah |title=Biography of Zvi Hirsch Masliansky |url=https://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/silver/masliansky-biography.html |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=Cleveland Jewish History}}{{Cite news |date=1935-03-08 |title=Maslianskys Honored on 60th Anniversary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-maslianskys-hon/138336995/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |pages=20 |via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated from Barnard College in 1928. She earned a master's degree at Columbia University.{{Cite web |last=Nardi |first=Zvia |title=Shulamith Nardi |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/nardi-shulamith |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=Jewish Women's Archive |language=en}}

Shulamith Schwartz was national president of Junior Hadassah from 1931 to 1933.{{Cite news |date=1932-11-03 |title=Zionist and 2 Hadassah Groups Hear Miss Shulamith Schwartz |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-news-zionist-and-2-hadassah/138331235/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |work=The Courier-News |pages=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1954-11-21 |title=Mrs. Nardi to Speak at Zionist Meeting |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-mrs-nardi-to-spea/138337220/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |work=The Indianapolis Star |pages=49 |via=Newspapers.com}} 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,{{Cite news |date=1936-12-08 |title=Palestine Rebuilt by Unity of Jews; Miss Shuliamith Schwartz Describes Development to Hadassah |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-palestine-rebuilt-by-unity-o/138336327/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |work=The Gazette |pages=8 |via=Newspapers.com}} 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{{Cite news |date=1944-11-19 |title=Zionists To Note Declaration of Balfour Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-zionists-to-note-declar/138336486/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |work=Hartford Courant |pages=13 |via=Newspapers.com}} and a member of the American Zionist Emergency Council. She toured giving lectures to Jewish community organizations.{{Cite news |date=1939-11-30 |title=Shulamith Schwartz Hadassah's Speaker; Noted Speaker Favors Local Organization with Visit Here |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-castle-news-shulamith-schwartz-hadas/138330493/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |work=New Castle News |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1940-01-07 |title=Shulamith Schwartz, Noted Jewish Lecturer, to Appear at Faber Hall Monday Night |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tyler-courier-times-shulamith-schwar/138330899/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |work=The Tyler Courier-Times |pages=11}}{{Cite news |date=1940-05-20 |title=Meeting, Convention Attendance on List of Hadassah Activities |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-meeting/138331130/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |work=The Central New Jersey Home News |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Nardi returned to Israel in 1951, and became an English professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1953.{{Cite news |last=Raymond |first=Steve |date=1959-04-19 |title=Education is Development Key, Israelis Believe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-education-is-developme/138337769/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |work=The Tampa Tribune |pages=58 |via=Newspapers.com}} In 1961, she was an alternate member of Israel's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly.{{Cite web |date=1961-09-06 |title=Golda Meir to Head Israel's Delegation at U.N. General Assembly Session |url=https://www.jta.org/archive/golda-meir-to-head-israels-delegation-at-u-n-general-assembly-session |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite book |last=Nardi |first=Shulamith Schwartz |url=http://archive.org/details/sevenscrolls0000nard |title=The seven scrolls |date=1957 |publisher=Jerusalem, Hebrew University in collaboration with the Shrine of the Book |others=Internet Archive}} She also conducted a study group on Jewish literature.{{Cite book |last=Shulewitz |first=Malka Hillel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDzUAwAAQBAJ&dq=Shulamith+Nardi&pg=PR11 |title=Forgotten Millions: The Modern Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands |date=2000-10-27 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-8264-4764-7 |pages=xi |language=en}}

• A Genesis Apocryphon: A scroll from the wilderness of Judaea (1956, by Nahman Avigadi and Yigael Yadin, translated by Shulamith Nardi)
• The Seven Scrolls (1957)
• Women Build a Land (1962, by Ada Maimon, translated by Nardi)
• Morning Stars (1967, by Zalman Shazar, translated by Nardi)
• Jewish Themes in Contemporary World Literature (1969){{Cite news |date=1966-11-11 |title=Random House to Print Books Examining Jewish Life in 20th Century |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-wisconsin-jewish-chronicle-random-ho/138336748/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |work=The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle |pages=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |last=Gilroy |first=Harry |date=November 6, 1966 |title=Random House Series on Jewish Life Today Set; General Editor a Professor at Hebrew University Books to Appear in '69 |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//timesmachine.content-tagging.us-east-1-01.prd.dvsp.nyt.net/timesmachine/1966/11/06/83551439.html?pageNumber=132 |access-date=2024-01-09 |work=The New York Times |pages=132 |language=en}}
• The Shrine of the Book and its Scrolls (1970){{Cite book |last=Nardi |first=Shulamith Schwartz |url=http://archive.org/details/shrineofbookitss0000nard |title=The Shrine of the Book and its scrolls |date=1965 |publisher=[Jerusalem, Shrine of the Book, the D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Centre for Biblical Manuscripts, the Israel Museum] |others=Internet Archive}}
• The world comes to Jerusalem : a collection of photographs (1983, by Sarah and Eli Ross, edited by Nardi)
• Rerooted in Jerusalem: Recollections of a Poet and Scientist (by Asenath Petrie, edited by Nardi)

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.

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