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Kalchheim, Moshe : EKZODUS 1947: YETSI’AT EROPAH 707 [AUTHOR INSCRIBED]

Tel Aviv: Farlag Folk Un Tsiyon, 1987

1st edition. Original stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. 100 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Exodus 1947: Leave Europe 707." On July 18, 1947, on a wharf in Haifa as the ship “Exodus 1947” limped into harbor. The evening before, this unarmed ship, crammed with more than 4,500 Holocaust survivors, had been rammed and boarded by sailors of the British Navy to prevent her desperate human cargo from seeking refuge in Palestine. The epic was famously documents by journalist Ruth Gruber who rushed to the scene and began witnessing the events as they unfolded, ultimately spending the next several months pursuing the exiles from port to port on the Mediterranean. Gruber’s quest produced riveting dispatches and vivid photographs published in the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Post that shaped worldwide perception of the plight of the DPs and arguably influenced the U.N. to create the state of Israel. The story was novelized by Leon Uris as "Exodus." Moshe Kalchheim (1915-1996) was a Jewish partisan in Poland during WWII. He ultimately wound up in Israel in 1961 (Yiddish Leksikon, 2019). SUBJECTS: Jews—Palestine—History-Jewish refugees. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide (OCLC:23464123). Inscribed by author in 1988. Very good condition. (YID-33-57-L-'ex)

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