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(Yeudith Cholodenko}

§{Biography}§

Yeudith Cholodenko (née Feinschreiber) was born near Pinsk tp Eliayhu, son of Rabbi Jacob from Kosovy and Sarah Ita daughter of Rabbi Jacob Hirsch Zakheim-Pitkowsky. Her family is descendant of Rashi and Hillel the Elder as well as of Iberian Rabbis (rabbi Gaon). She received a traditional Jewish education, yet attended a general gymnasium in Brisk. During WWI she was exiled with her family to Roznoy where she served as a Hebrew and history teacher to Jewish children. She then moved to Kiev, Ukraine, and graduated from the faculty of Pedagogy of the city's university. She attended the Hebrew school of Itzhak Alterman who had moved his activity from Warsaw. Yeudit took part of the "Zionist Youth" and headed one of its branches in the Slodovka quarter in Kiev. As a result of her Zionist activities, she was imprsoned by Russian authorities together with Eliayhu Epstein, David Bar, Baruch Weinstein, Nahum Verlinsky and Meir Argov.Her sentence of imprisonment was revoked and she was sent to Palestine in 1923, accompanied by her husband, doctor Aaron Cholodenko (later Helled), son of Hebrerw educator Avraham Cholodenko. The coupled settled in Tel-Aviv where Yeudith participated in social activities with friends Shoshana Persitz and Rachel Kogan. She was a memeber of World Hebrew Organization, Women's International Zionist Organization and fought to release Zionist prisoners in Soviet jails. She took initiative to raise funds to Tel-Aviv's poor neighbourhoods and dedicated herself to primary education in Hebrew of Jewish immigrants. She died on 27 August 1956 and was buried in Holon cemetery. §{Family}§: Yeudith had two children from her marriageto Dr. Helled: Tamara Ben-Avraham (wife of Israeli sport broadcaster Nehemia Ben-Avraham), and Amnon Helled, an Israeli lawyer.

§{Sources}§: D.Tidhar,The Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel, 1957,p. 3176 (in Hebrew)