[1] Her mother, Rachel Hen, was[2] a daughter of Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Chein of Chernigov and a descendant of the Sephardic dynasty of Hen-Gracian, which traces its roots to 11th century Barcelona.
[3] Zelda attended a religious school for girls in British Palestine, and then studied at the Teachers' College of the Mizrachi movement.
[3] Her poems, highly spiritual but at same time very direct, colorful, and precise, appealed to both religious and secular people.
[1] Zelda's poetry is imbued with deep faith, free of the doubt and irony that sometimes permeates the work of other modern Hebrew poets.
Her poems reflect her abiding faith – for example in Kaasher berakhti 'al hanerot – "When I said the blessing over the Shabbat candles"[6] ("כאשר ברכתי על הנרות").