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We are coming, unafraid : the Jewish legions and the promised land in the First World War / Michael Keren and Shlomit Keren.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 191 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442205505
  • 1442205504
  • 128292253X
  • 9781282922532
  • 9786612922534
  • 6612922532
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: We are coming, unafraid.DDC classification:
  • 940.4/1241 22
LOC classification:
  • D568.7
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Leaving home -- In distant lands -- To the front -- On bravery -- Hope and disenchantment -- The chaplain -- An aristocrat of sorts -- Memory and identity -- A soldier left behind -- Existential zionism.
Summary: This book tells the little-known stories of three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of the Allies' Middle East campaign, recruiting soldiers from the United States, Canada, England, and Argentina. Many of the soldiers, ranging widely in education level, social class, and combat experience, were displaced immigrants or children of such immigrants. Together, they coalesced into the all-Jewish battalions: "the liberators of the Promised Land."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185) and index.

Leaving home -- In distant lands -- To the front -- On bravery -- Hope and disenchantment -- The chaplain -- An aristocrat of sorts -- Memory and identity -- A soldier left behind -- Existential zionism.

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This book tells the little-known stories of three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of the Allies' Middle East campaign, recruiting soldiers from the United States, Canada, England, and Argentina. Many of the soldiers, ranging widely in education level, social class, and combat experience, were displaced immigrants or children of such immigrants. Together, they coalesced into the all-Jewish battalions: "the liberators of the Promised Land."

English.