An edition of Destination Palestine (1948)

Exodus 1947

the ship that launched a nation

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An edition of Destination Palestine (1948)

Exodus 1947

the ship that launched a nation

1st Times Books ed
  • 2 Want to read

"On July 18, 1947, Ruth Gruber, an American journalist, waited on a wharf in Haifa as the Exodus 1947 limped into harbor. The evening before, Gruber had learned that this unarmed ship, with more than 4,500 Holocaust survivors crammed into a former tourist vessel designed for 400 passengers, had been rammed and boarded by the British Navy, which was determined to keep her desperate human cargo from finding refuge in Palestine.

Now, though soldiers blockaded both exit and entry to the weary vessel, Gruber was determined to meet the refugees and hear their tales. For the next several months she pursued the emigres' stories, from Haifa to the prison camps on Cyprus (where she was misled by the British to believe the DPs would land, though they never did), to southern France, and, appallingly, back to Hamburg, Germany, where they were ultimately sent by the intractable British authorities.".

"As the lone journalist covering this story, Gruber sent riveting dispatches and vivid photographs back to the New York and Paris Herald Tribune, which in turn sent them out to the rest of the world press. Gruber's relentless reporting and striking photographs shaped perceptions worldwide as to the situation of postwar Jewish refugees and of the British Mandate in Palestine, and arguably influenced the United Nations decision to finally create the State of Israel in 1948.".

"In 1948, Gruber assembled her dispatches and thirty of her pictures into Destination Palestine, the book that became the basis for Leon Uris's bestselling novel Exodus and the film of the same name.

In this revised and expanded edition, Gruber has included a new opening chapter of never-before-published material on the wretched DP camps of Europe, where the refugees were living before boarding the Exodus 1947; updated the fate of many of the passengers, describing how they smuggled themselves into Palestine - despite the myriad obstacles thrown up by the British authorities - even before the State of Israel was born; and selected seventy additional photographs from her personal archives."--BOOK JACKET.

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Times Books
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English
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204

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Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched a Nation
October 1, 2007, Union Square Press
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Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched a Nation
October 1, 1999, Crown
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Exodus 1947: the ship that launched a nation
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Edition Notes

"Formerly titled Destination Palestine: the story of the Haganah ship Exodus."

Includes index

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New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
DS126.4 .G75 1999, DS 126.4 .G75 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 204 p. :
Number of pages
204

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16953877M
Internet Archive
exodus1947shipth00unse
ISBN 10
0812931548
LCCN
99024922
OCLC/WorldCat
40954236
Library Thing
1091585
Goodreads
361673

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