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Title Without permission : conversations, letters, and memoirs of Henry Mandel / edited by Samuel Flaks
Published Brookline, MA : Cherry Orchard Books, an imprint of Academic Studies Press, 2021
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Contents Part One: Interviews and Reminiscences of Jewish Illegal Immigrant Ship Ben Hecht Crewman Henry Mandel -- Vienna Born, Bronx Bred -- The War Comes Home -- The Merchant Marine -- From Gowanus Canal to Atlantic Crossing -- Final Preparations -- The Irgun Had Other Ideas -- Bazooka Plant -- Part Two: Letters and Contextual Commentary -- The Bergson Group -- The Mission and the Crew -- Atlantic Crossing to the Mediterranean Sea -- The Palestine Run -- Piracy on the High Seas -- Breakout -- Release -- Machal -- A Mercy Ship's Legacy -- Part Three: Henry Mandel Reflects -- Family and Brotherly Love -- Civil Servant and Union Activist
Summary "A fantastical propaganda play depicting an armed revolt financed the purchase of the yacht Abril and its conversion to an "illegal" immigrant passenger ship renamed the Ben Hecht. The plan was to evade the British naval blockade and bring Holocaust survivor refugees to Palestine. Henry Mandel volunteered aboard the Ben Hecht, a converted yacht that challenged the British blockade of Jewish immigrants to pre-state Israel. Captured and detained in Acre Prison, Mandel aided the efforts of prisoners planning an escape. After release, Mandel helped set up a secret bazooka shell plant in New York, which he helped to reassemble in Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Mandel was an Orthodox Jew whose reminiscences provide a uniquely illuminating perspective on the creation of the Jewish state. Mandel's story is explicated in a running commentary that includes the personal narratives of other members of the Ben Hecht crew as well as historical background"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 31, 2021)
Subject Mandel, Henry, 1920-2015 -- Interviews
Ben Hecht (Yacht) -- History
Bergson Group.
Jewish refugees -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
Zionists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
Merchant mariners -- United States -- Biography
HISTORY / Jewish.
Emigration and immigration
Jewish refugees
Merchant mariners
Zionists
SUBJECT Palestine -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Subject Middle East -- Palestine
New York (State) -- New York
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Interviews
Form Electronic book
Author Flaks, Samuel, 1984- editor.
LC no. 2021041028
ISBN 9781644695968
1644695960
1644695952
9781644695951
Other Titles Conversations, letters, and memoirs of Henry Mandel