| #3049030 in Books | Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd) | 1998-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.49 x1.23 x6.36l,1.49 | File type: PDF | 356 pages | ||6 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Historical revisionism?|By MDK|I must confess that I only read the first 60 pages of this book. I was bored with irrelevant details and could not finish.
However, Ms. Halamish does refer to the Irgun as "...the terrorists." She does not even credit them with being a legitimate opposition ("...this would put an end to the process of conciliation between the organized|From Booklist|On the night of July 17, 1947, the ship Exodus, with 4,500 Holocaust survivors, was attempting to break through a British blockade of what was then Palestine. Several hours later the Exodus
The story of the real Exodus, the legendary ship that became the symbol of the struggle for a Jewish state, is no less fascinating than the work of fiction bearing her name. Jewish survivors of the Holocaust - 4,500 of them - were denied access to what they considered to be their homeland, and after a brutal battle with more than half a dozen British war ships near the coast of Palestine, the survivors were sent back to Europe. Refusing to disembark, in spite of the gene...
You easily download any file type for your device.Exodus Affair: Holocaust Survivors and the Struggle for Palestine, 1947 (Religion, Theology and the Holocaust) | Aviva Halamish. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
