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An American-Jewish Hero In Israel
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friends to like this.The title is The Jews' Secret Fleet: The Untold Story of North American Volunteers who Smashed the British Blockade of Palestine. The author, Murray S. Greenfield, is the founder of Israel's Gefen Publishing House and of much else. Joseph M. Hochstein wrote it with him.
Here's how the book came into my possession. Someone named Murray kept calling me. He said he wanted "I should interview him," like I'd interviewed fellow pre-state activist David Gutmann, a"h, in these pages ("Israel's Rebirth 'A Boring Story' to U.S. Jews," April 2, 2010).
He called at a particularly hard time and I could not meet with him – but then he sent a messenger bearing this book. It was then that I realized this was a living hero of the Jewish people who wanted to meet me. Duty called. We met the very next day.
The ingenuity, boldness, idealism, and bravery of these "illegal" volunteer sailors and their Palestinian officers in HaMossad L'Aliyah Bet was beyond belief. It was a real David and Goliath story because they took on the cruel and mighty British fleet – and, despite losses, hardship, and unimaginable danger, they won, as the illegal boats and ships brought so many of the European Jews who survived the Holocaust into Palestine – well, mainly into British prison camps in Cyprus, but close enough.
And they drew world attention and,
ultimately, sympathy by publicizing British heartlessness, the tragic plight
of the post-concentration camp refugees, and the extraordinary derring-do of
the volunteer sailors.
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