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These vivid descriptions piece together a stirring portrait of a people struggling to maintain normal life in the most abnormal of settings. Balint succeeds where the evening news and the most sophisticated media technologies fail. She chronicles the everyday existence of ordinary citizens, whose lives have been irrevocably altered by extraordinary events. The result is an absorbing and inspiring account of a nation and a country weathering a rough and relentless storm. Reviews: “People who rely on the New York Times and Washington Post, or…the British press for their sense of what is happening in Israel will discover, in reading this book, that they have been walking about blindfolded.” Edward Alexander, Jerusalem Post “…She is straightforward and honest and reveals to the reader the truth behind what CNN, the New York Times and other anti-Israel, biased publications dish out to the unsuspecting public. 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The Jews’ Secret Fleet , is the only authentic book that covers the full participation of 240 volunteers from North America. These men sailed from the USA to Eretz Israel on 10 ships, bringing some 35,000 survivors of the Holocaust. The book details their remarkable journey. The book documents in words and pictures the story so dramatically told in Leon Uris', The Exodus . It tells the real story of the actual people some of whom were represented by Uris' fictionalized characters. The individuals and the personal stories that inspired the characters Ari Ben Canaan played by Paul Newman in the movie, Katherine Kitty Fremont, Bruce Sutherland, Karen Hansen Clement, Dov Landau and others are documented in this book. Listen to a Listen to a Sailor's Story , a July 16, 2007 Nextbook.com interview with unlikely Exodus crew-member Jack Johnson from Alaska, who recalls his part in this great episode of modern Jewish history. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction by Sir Martin Gilbert Forward, by Paul Shulman (The first commander of the Israeli Navy) Preface The Blockade-Runners Illegal Immigration: An Overview Creating the Fleet in America Josiah Wedgewood Beauharnois Haganah Norsyd \/ Baboa and the Biryah Akbel II Haim Arlosofoff Ulua Ben Hecht Abril Hatikvah Tradewinds Exodus President Warfield Geula Paducah and the Jewish State Northland Atzmaut and Kibbutz Galuyot Pan Cresent and Pan York What the British Knew and Didn't Know The Story Continues Reviews: This is a no-holds barred reality check on how the Brits with Arab oil on their mind did all they could to keep Jewish Birth-right peoples from entering Palestine - the Jewish homeland.... Bob and Barbara Epstein , Outdoor Florida The Jews Secret Fleet is full of stories as dramatic as that of the Exodus. It reminds us that American Jews played a small, yet significant role in the creation of the Jewish state. Four of the American vessels became the first warships in the fledgling Israeli navy. The bravery displayed by these American volunteers for Aion should not be forgotten, and this book helps make certain they will receive their historical due. Henry Srebrnik , Washington Jewish Week I am pleased to know that a book covering your remarkable experiences will be published in the near future and preserve for all time one of the most glorious chapters in Jewish history. What miracles you accomplished against such overpowering odds, in the face of such dangers, is a story that has few parallels and will be an inspiration to our people forever. Leon Uris , Author of The Exodus r Dramatic, moving and engrossing, this is the story of some 200 young American seamen who sailed the so-called illegal ships and carried half of the 70,000 survivors of the Holocaust to the land of Israel. 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His venture was supported and funded from the u.s. by a group which included Julius Rosenwald, Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter (both later on the u.s. Supreme Court), Judah L. Magnes (later President of the Hebrew University), and Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah. In World War I, reacting against the oppressive Turkish regime, Aaronsohn founded a Jewish spy organization, nili, to help the British in the forthcoming battle for Palestine. Here is told the story of Aaronsohn, who is revealed as a master of strategy, and his sister Sarah, whose self-sacrificing devotion to the cause shows her to be a great historic personality in her own right. Historian Shmuel Katz here rectifies the absence of a comprehensive biography of Aaronsohn and the nili spy ring. Meticulously researched British War Office intelligence documents and the letters and field reports of nili’s central figures illustrate the crucial contribution made by nili to the British conquest of Palestine. Powerfully written, with deep sensitivity to the emotional lives of the people portrayed, The Aaronsohn Saga is both solid history and a marvelous read. Reviews: Laurence Weinbaum Jewish Affairs …Katz’s language is fluent and engaging, [reading] more like a novel than a work of history. He paints colourful portraits of all the main fi gures in the epoch and in doing so he also provides a fine picture of the life and times of the Yishuv and its relations with the outside world. In the contemporary review of the 1936 travelogue Palestine on the Eve, by the Hungarian-born journalist Ladislas Farrago, a British writer wrote: ‘…one day, truth will emerge from the well, and the Empire will learn what it owed to Aaron and Sarah Aaronsohn, Avshalom Feinberg, and others of that devoted band, who endured and died for their faith under the inspiration of Aaron.’ Thanks to the indefatigable efforts and meticulous scholarship of Shmuel Katz, it seems that ‘one day’ may have finally arrived.” Jewish Book World “Shmuel Katz’ newest book explores the contributions of this remarkable Jewish\/Palestinian hero. 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