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David: The Story Of Ben-Gurion
214 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1965
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Maurice Edelman
27 books2 followersThe son of Eastern European emigrants who came to Britain to escape the pogroms, Maurice Edelman was educated at Cardiff High School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After a career in the plywood industry and time as a journalist during the Second World War, Edelman won election to Parliament in 1945 as a Labour candidate for Coventry West. During his time in Parliament he was a vice-chairman of the British Council and chairman of the Franco-British Parliamentary Relations Committee.
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September 11, 2021
This fast-moving biography of Israel's George Washington, was published in 1965, three years before Israel's great triumph in the Six Day War, and eight years before Ben-Gurion's passing.
It begins with the pogroms against the Jews of Russia in the 1880's and against this backdrop, the birth of David Ben-Gurion (born David Green), and his involvement with the Zionist cause, from when he was very young.
In 1906 a twenty year old Ben-Gurion emigrated to the Land of Israel, then under Turkish rule, to work as a labourer. He was already a leader of men, and a self-sacrificing expositor of Zionist ideals, continuing through the First World War, which saw the Balfour Declaration and the establishment of the British Mandate over 'Palestine', the endless negotiations and campaigns, the building of the Land of Israel by the young Jewish pioneers in the face of difficult conditions and the Arab pogroms of 1920, 1921, 1929, 1nd 1935-1939, the Second World War and the horrors of the holocaust, the struggle against the British White Paper, in which the British government cruelly prevented millions of refugees from Nazi terror finding refuge in Eretz Yisreal, and Ben-Gurion's feud with the Irgun and Revisionist Zionists (In this particular internal power struggle, Ben-Gurion, Weizmann and the Jewish Agency get home team treatment, as the author makes no bones of his contempt of the Irgun and Lechi Freedom Fighters).
The War of Independence, and as an elder statesman of the newborn State of Israel, the architect of the Suez Campaign as a response to another Arab attempt to anihilate Israel, and the Eichmann trial, shortly after which this book was written.
This book is an important resource of Zionism and the struggles of the pioneers to rebuild the Land of Israel. It is also a testament to a great man and a great architect of the refoundation of the State of Israel.
The book highlights such events as the Fedayeen Raids in which hundreds of Jewish men, women and children were killed in cold blood by the Arab Fedayeen marauders from Jordan and Egypt, during the 1950's and the background to the capture of one of the major perpetrators of the mass slaughter of millions of Jews (including a million Jewish children) during the holocaust, Adolf Eichmann.
It is a testament of struggle and rebirth.
It begins with the pogroms against the Jews of Russia in the 1880's and against this backdrop, the birth of David Ben-Gurion (born David Green), and his involvement with the Zionist cause, from when he was very young.
In 1906 a twenty year old Ben-Gurion emigrated to the Land of Israel, then under Turkish rule, to work as a labourer. He was already a leader of men, and a self-sacrificing expositor of Zionist ideals, continuing through the First World War, which saw the Balfour Declaration and the establishment of the British Mandate over 'Palestine', the endless negotiations and campaigns, the building of the Land of Israel by the young Jewish pioneers in the face of difficult conditions and the Arab pogroms of 1920, 1921, 1929, 1nd 1935-1939, the Second World War and the horrors of the holocaust, the struggle against the British White Paper, in which the British government cruelly prevented millions of refugees from Nazi terror finding refuge in Eretz Yisreal, and Ben-Gurion's feud with the Irgun and Revisionist Zionists (In this particular internal power struggle, Ben-Gurion, Weizmann and the Jewish Agency get home team treatment, as the author makes no bones of his contempt of the Irgun and Lechi Freedom Fighters).
The War of Independence, and as an elder statesman of the newborn State of Israel, the architect of the Suez Campaign as a response to another Arab attempt to anihilate Israel, and the Eichmann trial, shortly after which this book was written.
This book is an important resource of Zionism and the struggles of the pioneers to rebuild the Land of Israel. It is also a testament to a great man and a great architect of the refoundation of the State of Israel.
The book highlights such events as the Fedayeen Raids in which hundreds of Jewish men, women and children were killed in cold blood by the Arab Fedayeen marauders from Jordan and Egypt, during the 1950's and the background to the capture of one of the major perpetrators of the mass slaughter of millions of Jews (including a million Jewish children) during the holocaust, Adolf Eichmann.
It is a testament of struggle and rebirth.
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