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This book is part of the Our Name in History series, a collection of fascinating facts and statistics, alongside short historical commentary, created to tell the story of previous generations who have shared this name.The information in this book is a compendium of research and data pulled from census records, military records, ships' logs, immigrant and port records, as well as other reputable sources. Topics include:

• Name Meaning and Origin
• Immigration Patterns and Census Detail
• Family Lifestyles
• Military Service History
• Comprehensive Source Guide, for future research

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an entirely new Naval Staff History covering the period immediately after the Second World War and the Royal Navy operations to prevent illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine, at the time under British Mandate from the United Nations.The Palestine Patrol, as it became known, illustrates clearly the problems facing navies conducting operations other than war; in particular those involving maritime embargo measures. ... Read more

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Fascinating perspective on the Jewish refugee problem
This book is an expanded and largely revised version of a restricted circulation internal staff review prepared for the instruction of British naval officers in 1947. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary, it was decided to have a new edition prepared for the benefit of the general public. The author/editor
benefitted from attending a reunion in Israel of former illegal immigrant ship commanders. Most people are familiar with the
popular Leon Uris novel EXODUS -- and the movie version.This book provides an in-depth look at the command and practical difficulties faced by the villains of the fictional account.
Regardless of what one might think about the British White Paper
of 1939, which had the effect of severely curtailing Jewish immigration to Palestine just as the European Holocaust got underway, one can appreciate how the Navy had no recourse but
to comply with the policy set by Whitehall for their own reasons of state. That they did so humanely and with the minimum of
force commensurate with the plight of the refugees they intercepted comes through in this study. Beyond the issues of interest to students of Israeli history, the book covers the
dilemmas of conducting coastal anti-smuggling blockade using ships and doctrines designed for open-ocean warfare.

A found a few references, such as comparing Irgun methods to
those employed by the Nazis against Jewish victims, a bit jarring and overdone. But on the whole, this book is a welcome
and refreshing revelation on how the Royal Navy professionalism
coped with a thankless task for which they had been ill-prepared. ... Read more

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This book presents a social history of the music of the Jewish community in Palestine from the beginnings of Jewish immigration to Palestine in 1880 to the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. The story is a fascinating case study of a small society of immigrants and refugees who established an internationally recognized professional musical establishment against the backdrop of two world wars, the absorption of successive waves of immigrants, local skirmishes, and a full-scale national war.Though under Ottoman and later British rule, Jewish society in Palestine was virtually autonomous in cultural matters; its musical culture struggled for a balance between a transplanted European heritage and a powerful, ideologically driven desire to find inspiration from the East. Hirshberg opens with a description of music in Palestine under Ottoman rule, and then proceeds to chart the momentous history of the next seventy years in a broadly chronological framework.His final chapters center on the broad array of ideological and social polemics which dominated the musical scene for the entire period. ... Read more

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Everything is found, "In my book"
I took Jehoash's class during my first year at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. It was a great class and I'm glad to know Jehoash. His passion is great and one can always find answers, "in my book." ... Read more

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Tuten shows how the Jewish National Fund (JNF) proved to be flexible in its fundraising to obtain its land-purchase objectives during the Second World War. He provides a detailed examination of the Jewish National Fund's internal development and analyses the relationship between JNF's finances and land purchase priorities. A valuable addition to recent re-evaluations of Israeli history and institutions, this book will be of interest to those researching Palestinian history, Jewish and Israeli history and the history of the modern Middle East. ... Read more

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Hayim Lapin examines the economic geography of fourth-century Roman Galilee. Drawing on literary and archaeological material for the distribution of cities, villages, roads and features of trade and marketing, and making use of the central-place theory, the author attempts to reconstruct models of the regional economy of northern Palestine, and to examine the degree of economic integration in the region. The author argues that the economic, social, and cultural landscape inhabited by residents of fourth-century Palestine was in many ways shaped by its Roman provincial administrative setting and political economy. ... Read more

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Scholarship performance!
Redford's treatment of the wars of Thutmose III in the Levant comprise (to my knowledge) one of the first systematic studies to such a difficult subject.The material and composition is rendered in such a way that its very useful to all academics but I would generally sugest the interested public steer away from this one for awhile.Get the basics and see how Redford draws connections and lays out historical studies at their best! ... Read more