Without Permission : Conversations, Letters, and Memoirs of Henry Mandel /
Flaks, Samuel
Without Permission : Conversations, Letters, and Memoirs of Henry Mandel / Samuel Flaks. - 1 online resource (272 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Interviews and Reminiscences of Jewish Illegal Immigrant Ship Ben Hecht Crewman Henry Mandel -- 1. Vienna Born, Bronx Bred -- 2. The War Comes Home -- 3. The Merchant Marine -- 4. From Gowanus Canal to Atlantic Crossing -- 5. Final Preparations -- 6. The Irgun Had Other Ideas -- 7. Bazooka Plant -- Part Two. Letters and Contextual Commentary -- 8. The Bergson Group -- 9. The Mission and the Crew -- 10. Atlantic Crossing to the Mediterranean Sea -- 11. The Palestine Run -- 12. Piracy on the High Seas -- 13. Breakout -- 14. Release -- 15. Machal -- 16. A Mercy Ship’s Legacy -- Part Three. Henry Mandel Reflects -- 17. Family and Brotherly Love -- 18. Civil Servant and Union Activist -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography and Works Cited -- Index -- Illustrations
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Henry Mandel (1920-2015), a crewman aboard the Jewish Illegal Immigrant ship Abril/Ben Hecht, a prisoner in Acre fortress and a volunteer for the Israeli Army during the 1948 Arab - Israeli War, was an Orthodox Jew whose reminiscences provide a uniquely illuminating perspective on the creation of the Jewish state. Mandel smuggled in electric batteries to prisoners planning an escape from Acre Prison. After being released, Mandel helped set-up a secret bazooka shell plant in New York which was reassembled in Israel with his assistance as a foreign volunteer. Personal narratives of the Ben Hecht crew are complemented by editorial historical analysis.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781644695944 9781644695951
10.1515/9781644695951 doi
Jewish refugees--History--Palestine--20th century.
Merchant mariners--United States--Biography.
Zionists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
HISTORY / Jewish.
American Jewish history. Brooklyn Navy Yard. Jewish homeland. Orthodox Jew. Palestine. United States Merchant Marin. WWII. World War 2. Zionism. merchant marines. refugees.
320.54095694/092
Without Permission : Conversations, Letters, and Memoirs of Henry Mandel / Samuel Flaks. - 1 online resource (272 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Interviews and Reminiscences of Jewish Illegal Immigrant Ship Ben Hecht Crewman Henry Mandel -- 1. Vienna Born, Bronx Bred -- 2. The War Comes Home -- 3. The Merchant Marine -- 4. From Gowanus Canal to Atlantic Crossing -- 5. Final Preparations -- 6. The Irgun Had Other Ideas -- 7. Bazooka Plant -- Part Two. Letters and Contextual Commentary -- 8. The Bergson Group -- 9. The Mission and the Crew -- 10. Atlantic Crossing to the Mediterranean Sea -- 11. The Palestine Run -- 12. Piracy on the High Seas -- 13. Breakout -- 14. Release -- 15. Machal -- 16. A Mercy Ship’s Legacy -- Part Three. Henry Mandel Reflects -- 17. Family and Brotherly Love -- 18. Civil Servant and Union Activist -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography and Works Cited -- Index -- Illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Henry Mandel (1920-2015), a crewman aboard the Jewish Illegal Immigrant ship Abril/Ben Hecht, a prisoner in Acre fortress and a volunteer for the Israeli Army during the 1948 Arab - Israeli War, was an Orthodox Jew whose reminiscences provide a uniquely illuminating perspective on the creation of the Jewish state. Mandel smuggled in electric batteries to prisoners planning an escape from Acre Prison. After being released, Mandel helped set-up a secret bazooka shell plant in New York which was reassembled in Israel with his assistance as a foreign volunteer. Personal narratives of the Ben Hecht crew are complemented by editorial historical analysis.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781644695944 9781644695951
10.1515/9781644695951 doi
Jewish refugees--History--Palestine--20th century.
Merchant mariners--United States--Biography.
Zionists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
HISTORY / Jewish.
American Jewish history. Brooklyn Navy Yard. Jewish homeland. Orthodox Jew. Palestine. United States Merchant Marin. WWII. World War 2. Zionism. merchant marines. refugees.
320.54095694/092