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An encyclopedia entry for Jewish poet Jessie Ethel Sampter is presented. Aside from being a poet, Sampter was also a Zionist thinker, educator, social reformer and pacifist. She was born on March 22, 1883 in New York City to German Jews, Rudolph and Virginia Sampter. It outlines the five people who raised Jewish consciousness in Sampter and introduced her to Zionism. It discusses her work as an educator of Zionism. She died on November 11, 1938 due to malaria and heart disease.

An encyclopedia entry for Rose I. Bender is presented. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 22, 1895, she was a leader of Jewish communities and American Zionism. She was known for being the first woman in the U.S. to become executive director of the Zionist Organization of Philadelphia in 1945.