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The first of the two-part epic that concludes with The Glory, this saga spans from 1948 to 1967, the early decades of the state of Israel as it fights for its life, outmatched and surrounded by enemies. The four heroes, and the women they love, weave a compelling tapestry of individual destinies through a grand recounting of one nation’s struggle against the odds.
Raquela Prywes was a ninth-generation Jerusalemite who found her calling as a hospital and battlefield nurse, delivering babies in the Atlit detention camp, where Holocaust survivors were interned by the British, and tending the wounded during the 1948 War of Independence. This is the true story of a remarkable woman whose life mirrored the trials and tribulations of the beginning of the modern State of Israel.
The amazing story of young Hannah Senesh, a Hungarian Jew, who at only 23-years-old was executed by the Nazis after being captured for attempting to rescue Jews out of Nazi-occupied Hungary. Hannah Senesh’s foresight at the deteriorating conditions for Jews in Europe caused her to immigrate to British-ruled Palestine where she was passionate about helping to grow the Jewish homeland.
Set in post-WWII and up to the 1948 War of Independence, The Boy From Over There tells the story of a young, orphaned Jewish boy who lived in hiding during the Holocaust and was then brought to Israel, where he joins a group of kibbutz children.
A young girl visits Israel and envisions the history of the sites she sees.
Puah Shteiner’s autobiographical book, Forever My Jerusalem, details the author’s memories of the fall and evacuation of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City in 1948.
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