# Ruth Popkin

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'''Ruth Popkin''' (13 June 1913 – 2 January 2015) led [Hadassah](/source/Hadassah_Women's_Zionist_Organization_of_America) and the [Jewish National Fund](/source/Jewish_National_Fund).<ref>{{cite web |last=Slotnik |first=Daniel E. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/nyregion/ruth-popkin-president-of-hadassah-who-worked-to-resettle-refugees-in-israel-dies-at-101.html |title=Ruth Popkin Dies at 101; Hadassah Leader Worked to Resettle Refugees |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date=2015-01-07 |accessdate=2019-05-28 |url-access=limited}}</ref> In 1978 she was co-chair of Hadassah’s first national convention in Israel.<ref name="jewishjournal1">{{cite web|last=Tigay |first=Alan |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/obituaries/article/ruth_popkin_hadassah_past_national_president_dies_at_101 |title=Ruth Popkin, Hadassah past national president, dies at 101 &#124; Obituaries |publisher=Jewish Journal |date=2015-01-05 |accessdate=2015-04-14}}</ref> She was president of Hadassah from 1984 to 1988 and served as a Hadassah delegate to seven Zionist Congresses from 1966 to 2002.<ref name="jewishjournal1"/> She was president of the Jewish National Fund from 1989 until 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forward.com/articles/212070/ruth-popkin-ex-president-of-hadassah-and-jewish-na/#ixzz3XKM14hqw |title=Ruth Popkin, Ex-President of Hadassah and Jewish National Fund, Dies at 101&nbsp;– |publisher=Forward.com |date=2015-01-05 |accessdate=2015-04-14}}</ref>

She was also the first woman to be Chair of the Presidium and President of the [World Zionist Congress](/source/World_Zionist_Congress), being elected to both positions in 1987.<ref name="jewishjournal1"/>

The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine has a Ruth and Morris Popkin Chair in Health Administration, and the dining room at the [Hadassah Neurim](/source/Hadassah_Neurim) Youth Village is named for Ruth Popkin.<ref name="jewishjournal1"/>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=3418556 Guide to the Executive Functions Records in the Hadassah Archives] at the [American Jewish Historical Society](/source/American_Jewish_Historical_Society) at the [Center for Jewish History](/source/Center_for_Jewish_History).

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