TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flaks,Samuel
TI  - Without Permission: Conversations, Letters, and Memoirs of Henry Mandel 
SN  - 9781644695944
U1  - 320.54095694/092 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - Academic Studies Press, 
KW  - Jewish refugees
KW  - Palestine
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Merchant mariners
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Zionists
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - HISTORY / Jewish
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American Jewish history
KW  - Brooklyn Navy Yard
KW  - Jewish homeland
KW  - Orthodox Jew
KW  - United States Merchant Marin
KW  - WWII
KW  - World War 2
KW  - Zionism
KW  - merchant marines
KW  - refugees
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644695951?locatt=mode:legacy
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