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The Nili Spies

2013-11-05 History
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Release : 2013-11-05
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Book Synopsis The Nili Spies by : Anita Engle

Download or read book The Nili Spies written by Anita Engle. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary tale, much-neglected by historians, of courage, bravery and eventual tragedy which took place during the First World War in the Middle East. It is the story of a small group of people, of whom Sarah and Aaron Aaronsohn were the core, who were devoted to the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, and who were convinced that it was in imminent danger of extinction from the Turks.They resolved to help the British in Egypt by collecting military intelligence. Unfortunately, as Peter Calvocoressi points out, their understanding of the British position was quite wrong...[their] miscalculations created the tragedy which this book recounts...'

The Woman Who Fought an Empire

2018-03-01 History
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Release : 2018-03-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Woman Who Fought an Empire by : Gregory J. Wallance

Download or read book The Woman Who Fought an Empire written by Gregory J. Wallance. This book was released on 2018-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Woman Who Fought an Empire" tells the improbable odyssey of a spirited young woman--the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine--and her journey from unhappy housewife to daring leader of a notorious Middle East spy ring.

Spies in Palestine

2017-09-12 History
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Release : 2017-09-12
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Spies in Palestine by : James Srodes

Download or read book Spies in Palestine written by James Srodes. This book was released on 2017-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Aaronsohn was a twenty–first century woman in a nineteenth–century world. She and her siblings were born as part of the first wave of Jewish immigrants who fled the pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1880s, settling in the province of Syria–Palestine. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the settlers had come a dramatic distance in creating the Eretz Israel of their Biblical prophecies. Sarah's home village of Zichron Ya'akov brought prosperity to their lands between the Mediterranean coast and the Mount Carmel range. But when the Ottoman Turkish Empire sided with Kaiser Wilhelm II and the other Central Powers in World War I, the Jewish settlements faced cruel oppressions. This book describes how the Aaronsohns, one of the most prominent families in the province, came to commit themselves and their comrades to the Allied side and how they formed the NILI espionage organization to spy against the Turkish Army. Late in the war, in 1917, Sarah assumed command of the spy network as the group's penetration of the Turkish army reached a critical juncture. Sarah was idolized by T.E. Lawrence, the fabled Lawrence of Arabia who dedicated his flowery biography, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, to her.

The Nili Spies

2013-11-05 History
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Release : 2013-11-05
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Book Synopsis The Nili Spies by : Anita Engle

Download or read book The Nili Spies written by Anita Engle. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary tale, much-neglected by historians, of courage, bravery and eventual tragedy which took place during the First World War in the Middle East. It is the story of a small group of people, of whom Sarah and Aaron Aaronsohn were the core, who were devoted to the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, and who were convinced that it was in imminent danger of extinction from the Turks.They resolved to help the British in Egypt by collecting military intelligence. Unfortunately, as Peter Calvocoressi points out, their understanding of the British position was quite wrong...[their] miscalculations created the tragedy which this book recounts...'

The Aaronsohn Saga

2007 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2007
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Aaronsohn Saga by : Shmuel Katz

Download or read book The Aaronsohn Saga written by Shmuel Katz. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated botanist, who had won world fame as the discoverer of 'wild wheat, ' Aaron Aaronsohn (1876 1919) created the first Jewish Agricultural Experiment Station in Palestine then under Turkish rule in 1910. His venture was supported and funded from the u.s. by a group which included Julius Rosenwald, Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter (both later on the u.s. Supreme Court), Judah L. Magnes (later President of the Hebrew University), and Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah. In World War I, reacting against the oppressive Turkish regime, Aaronsohn founded a Jewish spy organization, nili, to help the British in the forthcoming battle for Palestine. Here is told the story of Aaronsohn, who is revealed as a master of strategy, and his sister Sarah, whose self-sacrificing devotion to the cause shows her to be a great historic personality in her own right. Historian Shmuel Katz here rectifies the absence of a comprehensive biography of Aaronsohn and the nili spy ring. Meticulously researched British War Office intelligence documents and the letters and field reports of nili s central figures illustrate the crucial contribution made by nili to the British conquest of Palestine. Powerfully written, with deep sensitivity to the emotional lives of the people portrayed, The Aaronsohn Saga is both solid history and a marvelous read.

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