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Judith Korim Hornstein Book Fund

A book fund for new acquisitions by the Grossman Library has been established in honor of Judith Korim Hornstein (1910-1996). One of eight children in a family of scholars and rabbis in Dabeik, Lithuania, Judith Korim was a gifted storyteller and fluent in three languages. She immigrated to the US in 1930 and took a job as a shoe stitcher in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Though circumstances had forced her to leave school after the fourth grade, she earned her high school diploma at Chelsea Night School and studied accounting and business management at the Harvard Extension School.

Ms. Korim became active in the labor movement and was a delegate to the 1936 Zionist Labor Congress in Zurich. There she met Golda Meir, who invited her to visit Palestine, where she met and married Jacob Hornstein, a Polish businessman. Judith Korim Hornstein returned to Boston and, with her husband, worked as a storekeeper, surplus dealer, and co-owner and manager of a real estate company. In honor of two of Mrs. Hornstein's sisters, who perished in the Holocaust, the Hornsteins have established memorial funds at Boston University and the West End House in Allston. The Harvard Extension School is grateful to the Hornstein family for its generous gift in Judith Korim Hornstein's memory.

Judith Korim with fellow delegates to the International Zionist       Labor Congress in Zurich, Switzerland, 1936.

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