From Catastrophe to Power: The Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel - Idith Zertal - Google Books

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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…