Dana: Adventures in a Troubled LandXlibris Corporation, 23 Agu 2014 - 260 halaman Captivated by the notion of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, beautiful Dana leaves her well-to-do family in Poland to become a guard at a kibbutz in northern Galilee where she marries Hershel, an ex-soldier from Ukraine, and they raise two children. Later, the family moves to Tel Aviv and then to Jerusalem whereas a language expert for Jewish military intelligence unitsDanas adventures begin. She uncovers an Arab-Nazi plot to exterminate the Jews in Palestine, entices a French foreign minister to relinquish abandoned Luftwaffe airplanes as World War II ends and Israels wars with the Arabs begin, seeks a traitor in Egypt and Greece, aids in the capture of a notorious Nazi war criminal, and translates secret messages from a famed Israeli spy that help Israel win the Six-Day War. And theres more . . . Spanning the period from the 1920s to the 1990s, Dana outlines major events in Israels history and points to important issues that persist to this dayIsraels treatment of Arabs in the captured territories, secular versus Orthodox Jewry within Israel, and the quest for an enduring Middle East peace. The book also shares intimate moments between a wife and husband who are deeply in love. |
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