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Raquela: A Woman of Israel

Name: Raquela: A Woman of Israel
Brand: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
SKU: 9781453258309
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Contributors:

Ruth Gruber

Publisher:

Open Road Integrated Media LLC

Release Date:

2010-10-19

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, History

Book Subcategory:

Medical (Incl. Patients), Women, Jewish

ISBN 13:

9781453258309

Weight:

1.33 lbs

Size:

Pages:

478

Description

A National Jewish Book Award-winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel's statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.

During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywes was a witness to history. She delivered babies in a Holocaust refugee camp and on the Israeli frontier. She crossed minefields to aid injured soldiers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and organized hospitals to save the lives of those fighting the 1967 Six-Day War. Along the way, her own life was a series of triumphs and tragedies mirroring those of the newly formed Jewish state.
Raquela is a moving tribute to a remarkable woman, and an unforgettable chronicle of the birth of Israel through the eyes of those who lived it.

About the Author

Ruth Gruber (1911-2016) was an award-winning Jewish American journalist, photographer, and humanitarian. Born in Brooklyn in 1911, she was the author of nineteen books, including the National Jewish Book Award-winning biography Raquela (1978). She also wrote several memoirs documenting her astonishing experiences, among them Ahead of Time (1991), Inside of Time (2002), and Haven (1983), which documents her role in the rescue of one thousand refugees from Europe and their safe transport to America. Gruber passed away in 2016 at the age of 105.

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