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Product Description: Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruberâs powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by President Franklin Delano Rooseveltâs administration to receive asylum in the United States...read more
Hardcover:
9780263129885, titled "Loveable Katie Lovewell" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1992), cover price $18.95 | also contains Loveable Katie Lovewell
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9781480479944, titled "Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America" | Reprint edition (Open Road Media, January 21, 2014), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruberâs powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by President Franklin Delano Rooseveltâs administration to receive asylum in the United States.
9781453206331, titled "Haven: The Dramatic Story Of 1,000 World War II Refugees And How They Came To America" | Reprint edition (Open Road Media, October 19, 2010), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruberâs powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by President Franklin Delano Rooseveltâs administration to receive asylum in the United States.
9780812933017 | Revised edition (Times Books, June 1, 2000), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Details the rescue by Roosevelt of one thousand refugees from Nazi-controlled Europe who came to America as guests of the United States government.
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9781453258309 | Open Road Media, October 19, 2010, cover price $14.99
9780812931532 | Three Rivers Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A portrait of a Raquela Prywes, gifted, ninth-generation Jerusalemite woman, examines her youth under the troubled rule of the British mandate, her service as a nurse and midwife during and after the struggle for independence, and the personal tragedies of her life.
Hardcover:
9781605830186 | Grolier Club, November 28, 2008, cover price $45.00
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9781402752285 | Union Square Pr, October 1, 2007, cover price $12.95
The world-renowned journalist, photographer, and adventurer chronicles the story of her own eventful life in an extraordinary collection of essays and photographs that recall her 1935 odyssey across the Soviet Arctic, her trip to Alaska to investigate homesteading and the construction of the Alaska Highway, and her work with Jewish refugees before and after World War II. 25,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780805242430 | Schocken Books, April 10, 2007, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A world-renowned journalist, photographer, and adventurer chronicles the story of her own eventful life, recalling her 1935 odyssey across the Soviet Arctic and her work with Jewish refugees before and after World War II.
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9780786715343 | Basic Books, May 4, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The seventieth anniversary edition of the first feminist biography of Virginia Woolf presents an insightful portrait of the writer from her own lifetime and assesses Woolf's impact on literature and culture.
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9780786710836 | Basic Books, December 15, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Spanning the years from 1941 to 1955, the author shares her life as a foreign correspondent during the Roosevelt administration and her relationships with such figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Meier, and David Ben-Gurion.
Paperback:
9780786713677 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, March 24, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Spanning the years from 1941 to 1955, a fascinating memoir shares the life experiences of a foreign correspondent during the Roosevelt administration and describes her relationships with such figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Meier, and David Ben-Gurion.
The past and future meet in the saga of the Oppermanns, a family commercially well-established in Berlin until the streets become flooded by troops in brown shirts, swastikas, and fascist salutes, leaving the Oppermanns defenseless to discrimination, deceit, betrayal, and historical tragedy. Reprint.
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9780786708802 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, April 11, 2001), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The past and future meet in the saga of the Oppermanns, a family commercially well-established in Berlin until the streets become flooded by troops in brown shirts, swastikas, and fascist salutes, leaving the Oppermanns defenseless to discrimination, deceit, betrayal, and historical tragedy.
The author of Haven describes her youth in Brooklyn, her education at the University of Cologne on the eve of Hitler's reign of terror, her career as a foreign correspondent, and her trips to the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorship. Reprint.
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9780922066643 | Wynwood Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The author describes her youth in Brooklyn, her education at the University of Cologne on the eve of Hitler's reign of terror, and her trips to the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorship
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9780786708369 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, January 16, 2001), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The author describes her youth in Brooklyn, her education at the University of Cologne on the eve of Hitler's reign of terror, and her trips to the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorship.
An eyewitness account of the desperate struggle of Holocaust survivors to immigrate to Palestine offers the author's personal recollections of her journey aboard the ship Exodus 1947, the efforts of the British to stop Jewish refugees from entering Palestine, and the creation of the state of Israel.
Hardcover:
9780812931549 | Times Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Offers the author's personal recollections of her journey aboard the ship Exodus 1947, the efforts of the British to stop Jewish refugees from entering Palestine, and the creation of the state of Israel
Product Description: A National Jewish Book Awardâwinning biography: A look at the early years of Israelâs statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywes was a witness to history...read more
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9780930395179 | Reprint edition (Biblio Pr, March 1, 1993), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A National Jewish Book Awardâwinning biography: A look at the early years of Israelâs statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.
Hardcover:
9780781281591 | Reprint Services Corp, October 1, 1991, cover price $129.00
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9780689117718 | Atheneum, November 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Ethiopian Jews and chronicles the progress of Operation Moses, the secret rescue mission that brought these isolated, persecuted black Jews out of Ethiopia to Israel
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9780451137692 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, August 1, 1985), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A portrait of a gifted, ninth-generation Jerusalemite woman examines her youth under the troubled rule of the British mandate, her service as a nurse and midwife during and after the struggle for independence, and the personal tragedies of her life
Hardcover:
9780698111820 | Putnam Pub Group, May 1, 1983, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Details the rescue by Roosevelt of one thousand refugees from Nazi-controlled Europe who came to America as guests of the United States government
Hardcover:
9780690294750 | Ty Crowell Co, October 1, 1972, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Biography of the Puerto Rican woman who served five terms as mayor of San Juan and believed in ruling with the 'politics of love.
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