From Catastrophe to Power: The Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel

by Idith Zertal

Book Overview

In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, that was organized by Palestinian Zionists just after World War II. Events that captured the attention of the world, such as the Exodus affair in the summer 1947, are seen here in a strikingly new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520215788
• ISBN13: 9780520215788
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"