[2] She graduated from New York University in 1921, the year she married banker and investment manager Benjamin Gottesman; he died in 1979.
[1] Gottesman was a delegate to the first post-WWII World Zionist Congress, held in Basel, Switzerland, in 1946.
[1] She was a member of World Zionist Organization Action Committee in the early years of Israeli statehood.
[1] She was a member of the board of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America from 1946 until her death.
[1][2] Gottesman persuaded her brother-in-law Samuel Gottesman to purchase the Dead Sea Scrolls and give them to Israel; the family built the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum to hold the scrolls.