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The Jews' secret fleet
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- Summary
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The story of some 200 young American seamen who sailed the so-called "illegal ships" and carried half of the 70,000 survivors of the Holocaust ot the land of Israel.
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- Creator
- Joseph M. Hochstein, Murray S. Greenfield
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Third edition
- Jerusalem ; N.Y.C. : Gefen, 1988
- Physical Details
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- 190 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9652290238, 9789652290236
- OCLC
- ocm19030133
- Maps on lining papers.
- N.Y.Published in New York City.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190).
- The blockade-runners -- 'Illegal immigration' : an overview -- Creating the fleet in America -- Josiah Wdgewood (Beauharnois) -- Hagana (Norsyd/Balboa) and Biriua (Akbel II) -- Haim Arlosoroff (Ulua) -- Ben Hecht (Abril) -- Hatikvah (Tradewinds) -- Exodus (President Warfield) -- Geula (Paducah) and the Jewish State (Northland) -- Atzmaut and Kibbutz Galuyot (Pan Crescent and Pan York) -- What the British know (and didn't know) -- The story continues -- Appendix A : Refugee vessels from America -- Appendix B : The men of the secret fleet -- Appendix C : Seven who lost thier loves for Israel's independence -- Appendix D : Chronology