Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Szold ya yi karatu a ƙarƙashin Rabbi Jacob Fischer na Shalgaw, Wolf Kollin na Vrbové, da Benjamin Wolf Löw a Pressburg Yeshiva, kuma ya sami izinin rabbinical daga Yahuda Assod na Bur da Simon Sidon na Tyrnau. A 1848, ya yi karatu a Vienna, amma lokacin da juyin juya hali
na wannan shekara ya fashe ya tafi Pressburg. Daga 1849 zuwa 1855 ya koyar a cikin iyalai masu zaman kansu a Hungary, kuma a cikin shekarar da ta gabata ya shiga Makarantar tauhidin yahudawa ta Breslau da Jami'ar Breslau, inda ya kasance har zuwa 1858. Yayin da yake dalibi ya yi aiki a lokacin ranakun tsarki a Brieg, Silesia (1857), da kuma Stockholm, Sweden (1858). A cikin 1859, ya karɓi kira daga Haikalin Oheb Shalom (Baltimore, Maryland) wanda ya kasance a cikin hidimarsa har zuwa mutuwarsa, da farko a matsayin malamin kuma daga baya (bayan 1892) a matsayin malamin girmamawa. Ya isa Amirka a ranar 21 ga Satumba, 1859, kusan wata guda bayan ya auri Sophie Schaar, kuma nan da nan ya ɗauki hakki na ikilisiya. A ƙarƙashin ja-gorarsa ta yi girma da sauri, kuma, ta wurin misalinsa, ta zama sananniya sosai domin tsananin kiyaye ta na Shabbat. Kafin zuwan Szold ikilisiya ta karɓi don amfani a cikin sabis na Shabbat "Minhag America" (wanda shine sabon littafin addu'a wanda Isaac Mayer Wise, wani malamin gyaran ya rubuta); a cikin manyan ranakun tsarkaka na kaka ya koma "Minhag Ashkenaz"; bayan tattaunawa mai yawa tare da ikilisiyarsa Szold ya gabatar da sabon littafin addu'a, "Abodat Yisrael", wanda ya bi layin gargajiya sosai. Buga na farko na wannan littafin addu'o'in ya bayyana a cikin 1863, tare da fassarar Jamusanci, kuma ikilisiyoyin da ke Amurka sun karɓa sosai; an buga sabbin bugu a cikin 1864 da 1865 (na biyun tare da fassarar Ingilishi), da kuma wani, bugu da aka sake dubawa a cikin 1871, Rabbis Marcus Jastrow na Philadelphia da Henry Hochheimer na Baltimore suna haɗuwa da Szold a cikin littafinsa.