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Without Permission : Conversations, Letters, and Memoirs of Henry Mandel / Samuel Flaks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781644695944
  • 9781644695951
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.54095694/092
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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