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| raquela prywes: Raquela Ruth Gruber, 2010-10-19 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. |
| raquela prywes: Raquela, a Woman of Israel Ruth Gruber, 1978 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--Amazon.com. |
| raquela prywes: Haven Ruth Gruber, 2010-10-19 Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber’s 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 Roosevelt’s administration to receive asylum in the United States. All they had to do was get there. Ruth Gruber, with the support of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, volunteered to escort them on their secret route across the Atlantic from a port in Italy to a “safe haven” camp in Oswego, New York. The dangerous endeavor carried the threat of Nazi capture with each passing day. While on the ship, Gruber recorded the refugees’ emotional stories and recounts them here in vivid detail, along with the aftermath of their arrival in the US, which involved a fight for their right to stay after the war ended. The result is a poignant and engrossing true story of suffering under Nazi persecution and incredible courage in the face of overwhelming circumstances. |
| raquela prywes: Collected Memoirs Ruth Gruber, 2018-04-24 Three poignant and powerful memoirs from the award-winning journalist, human rights advocate, and “fearless chronicler of the Jewish struggle” (The New York Times). Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for her biography of the pioneering Israeli nurse, Raquela Prywes, Ruth Gruber lived an extraordinary life as a foreign correspondent, photographer, humanitarian, and author. This collection is comprised of three of her most gripping memoirs, covering many of the most significant historical events in the first half of the twentieth century. Ahead of Time: At the tender age of eighty, the trailblazing journalist looked back on her remarkable first twenty-five years: growing up in a Brooklyn shtetl; entering New York University at fifteen; becoming the world’s youngest person to earn a PhD at nineteen in Cologne, Germany; being exposed to Hitler’s rise to power; and becoming the first American to travel to Siberia at the age of twenty-four, reporting on Gulag conditions for the New York Herald Tribune, in this “beautifully crafted” memoir (Publishers Weekly). “Ruth Gruber’s singular autobiography is both informative and poignant. Read it and your own memory will be enriched.” —Elie Wiesel Haven: In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees were chosen by President Roosevelt to receive asylum in the United States. Working for the secretary of the interior, Gruber volunteered to shepherd them on their secret route across the Atlantic from Italy. She recorded the refugees’ dangerous passage, along with the aftermath of their arrival, which involved a fight to stay in the US after the war ended. The “remarkable story” was made into a TV miniseries starring Natasha Richardson as Gruber (Booklist). “[A] touching story . . . [Ruth Gruber] has put us into the full picture and humanized it.” —The New York Times Inside of Time: Unstoppable at ninety-one, Gruber, “with clarity, insight and humor,” revisited the years 1941 to 1952, recounting her eighteen months spent surveying Alaska on behalf of the US government, her role assisting Holocaust refugees’ emigration from war-torn Europe to Israel, and her relationships with some of the most important figures of the era, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Golda Meir (Publishers Weekly). “Gruber bore witness, spoke bluntly, galvanized public opinion, inspired people to action.” —Blanche Wiesen Cook, Los Angeles Times |
| raquela prywes: Current Biography , 2001 |
| raquela prywes: Feminist Bookstore News , 1993 |
| raquela prywes: Who's who in World Jewry Harry Schneiderman, Itzhak J. Carmin, 1987 |
| raquela prywes: The New York Times Book Review , 1978-07 |
| raquela prywes: Books for You Robert C. Small, National Council of Teachers of English. Committee on the Senior High School Booklist, 1982 The books listed in this annotated bibliography, selected to provide pleasurable reading for high school students, are arranged alphabetically by author under 35 main categories: (1) adventure and adventurers; (2) animals; (3) art and architecture; (4) biography; (5) careers and people on the job; (6) cars and airplanes; (7) great books that are unusual; (8) drama; (9) ecology; (10) essays; (11) ethnic experiences; (12) fantasy; (13) history; (14) historical fiction; (15) hobbies and crafts; (16) horror, witchcraft, and the occult; (17) humor; (18) improving yourself; (19) languages; (20) love and romance; (21) music and musicians; (22) mystery and crime; (23) myths and legends; (24) philosophies and philosophers; (25) poetry and poets; (26) social and personal problems; (27) religion and religious leaders; (28) science and scientists; (29) science fiction; (30) short stories; (31) sports and sports figures; (32) television, movies, and entertainment; (33) wars, soldiers, spying, and spies; (34) westerns and people of the west; and (35) women. A directory of publishers and indexes of authors and titles conclude the book. (EL) |
| raquela prywes: Subject Catalog Library of Congress, |
| raquela prywes: Library Journal , 1978-07 |
| raquela prywes: Book Review Digest , 1979 Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher. |
| raquela prywes: Subject Catalog, 1978 Library of Congress, 1978 |
| raquela prywes: Current Biography Yearbook , 2001 Presents biographical articles about living leaders in all fields of human accomplishment throughout the world; arranged alphabetically with a cumulative index to the January 2001-November 2001 issues, as well as an index of professions. |
| raquela prywes: American Book Publishing Record , 1999 |
| raquela prywes: National Union Catalog , 1978 Includes entries for maps and atlases. |
| raquela prywes: The Library Journal Book Review. 1978 R. R. Bowker LLC, 1979 |
| raquela prywes: The Jewish Woman Doris B. Gold, 1996 |
| raquela prywes: Library of Congress Catalogs Library of Congress, 1980 |
| raquela prywes: New Books on Women and Feminism , 1993 |
| raquela prywes: My Mother's Daughter Dorothy Peck Steinfeld, 1990 |
| raquela prywes: Inside of Time Ruth Gruber, 2010-10-19 The unforgettable story of Ruth Gruber’s rugged travels through Alaska and years spent helping refugees escape to Israel in the nation’s turbulent early days. Drawing from hundreds of notebooks accumulated throughout her career, Gruber’s breathtaking memoir spans some of the most significant events of the twentieth century, covering the years 1941 to 1952. She details her eighteen months spent surveying Alaska on behalf of the United States government, her role assisting Holocaust refugees’ emigration from war-torn Europe, and her relationships with some of the most important figures of the era, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Golda Meir. Gruber describes these eleven years of her inspiring life with clarity and insight, providing an extraordinary inside look at some of the twentieth century’s turning points. |
| raquela prywes: The Cumulative Book Index , 1980 A world list of books in the English language. |
| raquela prywes: Abridged Biography and Genealogy Master Index Barbara McNeil, 1988 |
| raquela prywes: National union catalog, 1978 Library of Congress, 1978 |
| raquela prywes: Cumulative Book Index , 1995 A world list of books in the English language. |
| raquela prywes: Exodus 1947 Ruth Gruber, 2007 The true story of the real Exodus ship--a moving eyewitness account of thousands of Holocaust survivors and the suffering they endured while clinging to their dream of entering the promised land. |
| raquela prywes: Raquela Ruth Gruber, 1979-11-01 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 |
| raquela prywes: Raquela Ruth Gruber, 1985 |
| raquela prywes: Israel Journal of Medical Sciences , 1984 |
| raquela prywes: Prisoner of Hope Moshe Prywes, 2002-06 Israel's leading medical educator recounts his odyssey from tragedy to triumph. |
| raquela prywes: Medical Education and Societal Needs Division of Health Sciences Policy Staff, 1983 |
| raquela prywes: Safe Among the Germans Ruth Gay, 2008-10-01 divdivThis book tells the little-known story of why a quarter-million Jews, survivors of death camps and forced labor, sought refuge in Germany after World War II. Those who had ventured to return to Poland after liberation soon found that their homeland had become a new killing ground, where some 1,500 Jews were murdered in pogroms between 1945 and 1947. Facing death at home, and with Palestine and the rest of the world largely closed to them, they looked for a place to be safe and found it in the shelter of the Allied Occupation Forces in Germany. By 1950 a little community of 20,000 Jews remained in Germany: 8,000 native German Jews and 12,000 from Eastern Europe. Ruth Gay examines their contrasting lives in the two postwar Germanies. After the fall of Communism, the Jewish community was suddenly overwhelmed by tens of thousands of former Soviet Jews. Now there are some 100,000 Jews in Germany. The old, somewhat nostalgic life of the first postwar decades is being swept aside by radical forces from the Lubavitcher at one end to Reform and feminism at the other. What started in 1945 as a “remnant” community has become a dynamic new center of Jewish life. /DIV/DIV |
| raquela prywes: Ahead of Time Ruth Gruber, 1991 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 |
| raquela prywes: Publishers Weekly , 1978 |
| raquela prywes: Like Dreamers Yossi Klein Halevi, 2013-10-01 “Powerful. . . . beautifully written . . . . There is much to admire . . . especially Mr. Halevi’s skill at getting inside the hearts and minds of these seven men” —Ethan Bronner, New York Times Following the lives of seven young members from the 55th Paratroopers Reserve Brigade, the unit responsible for restoring Jewish sovereignty to Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi reveals how this band of brothers played pivotal roles in shaping Israel’s destiny long after their historic victory. While they worked together to reunite their country in 1967, these men harbored drastically different visions for Israel’s future. One emerges at the forefront of the religious settlement movement, while another is instrumental in the 2005 unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. One becomes a driving force in the growth of Israel’s capitalist economy, while another ardently defends the socialist kibbutzim. One is a leading peace activist, while another helps create an anti-Zionist terror underground in Damascus. Featuring eight pages of black-and-white photos and maps, Like Dreamers is a nuanced, in-depth look at these diverse men and the conflicting beliefs that have helped to define modern Israel and the Middle East. “A beautifully written and sometimes heartbreaking account of these men, their families, and their nation.” —Booklist, starred review “Halevi's book is executed with imagination, narrative drive, and, above all, deep empathy for a wide variety of Israelis, and the result is a must-read for anyone with an interest in contemporary Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Mr. Halevi’s masterly book brings us into [the] . . . debate and the lives of those who live it.” —Elliott Abrams, Wall Street Journal |
| raquela prywes: San Francisco Jewish Bulletin , 1979 |
| raquela prywes: Jewish Medical Ethics Sir Immanuel Jakobovits, 1977 |
| raquela prywes: Virginia Woolf Ruth Gruber, 2012-04-17 This groundbreaking study of the work and legacy of Virginia Woolf is also an account of the intertwined lives of two extraordinary women. In 1932, Ruth Gruber earned her PhD—the youngest person ever to do so—with a stunning doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf. Published in 1935, the paper was the first-ever feminist critique of Woolf’s work and inspired a series of correspondences between the two writers. It also led to Gruber’s eventual meeting with Woolf, which she recounted six decades later in Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman. Described by Gruber as “the odyssey of how I met Virginia Woolf, and how her life and work became intertwined with my life,” Virginia Woolf is a clear and insightful portrait of one of modern literature’s most innovative authors, written by one of America’s most remarkable journalists. |
| raquela prywes: The Warsaw Orphan Kelly Rimmer, 2021-06-01 Instant New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! Inspired by the real-life heroine who saved thousands of Jewish children during WWII, The Warsaw Orphan is Kelly Rimmer’s most anticipated novel since her bestselling sensation, The Things We Cannot Say. “Gripping… This one easily stands on its own.” —Publishers Weekly “Heart-stopping.” – Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author “A surefire hit.” – Kristin Harmel, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors. She knows all too well about German brutality--and that it's the reason she must conceal her true identity. But in befriending Sara, a nurse who shares her apartment floor, Elzbieta makes a discovery that propels her into a dangerous world of deception and heroism. Using Sara's credentials to smuggle children out of the ghetto brings Elzbieta face-to-face with the reality of the war behind its walls, and to the plight of the Gorka family, who must make the impossible decision to give up their newborn daughter or watch her starve. For Roman Gorka, this final injustice stirs him to rebellion with a zeal not even his newfound love for Elzbieta can suppress. But his recklessness brings unwanted attention to Sara's cause, unwittingly putting Elzbieta and her family in harm's way until one violent act threatens to destroy their chance at freedom forever. From Nazi occupation to the threat of a communist regime, The Warsaw Orphan is the unforgettable story of Elzbieta and Roman's perilous attempt to reclaim the love and life they once knew. Don’t miss Kelly Rimmer’s newest novel, The Paris Agent, where a family’s innocent search for answers brings a long-forgotten, twenty-five-year-old mystery featuring two female SOE operatives comes to light! For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for: Before I Let You Go The Things We Cannot Say Truths I Never Told You The German Wife The Midnight Estate (out July 22, 2025) |
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The stamina, courage, industry, and determination of the Jewish people is obvious in this book. If you are one of those who knows little of the history of Israel, you will be enlightened, but also …
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Oct 19, 2010 · 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.
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RAQUELA is a singer/songwriter and Billboard Dance/House recording artist. Before that she was an award winning singer/actress performing leading roles on Broadway. Her powerhouse …
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The story of Raquela is a true story of the founding of the State of Israel, and the healing of a nation of survivors, told through the eyes of an Israeli nurse/midwife who personally treated …
Book Review: "Raquela, A Woman of Israel" - Israel Forever …
The stamina, courage, industry, and determination of the Jewish people is obvious in this book. If you are one of those who knows little of the history of Israel, you will be enlightened, but also …
Raquela: A Woman of Israel Paperback – October 19, 2010
Oct 19, 2010 · 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.
Raquela, The Official Website
Jan 1, 2020 · ABOUT RAQUELA: An American singer/songwriter and recording artist who is also an award winning singer/actress who performed leading roles on Broadway. She's opened for …
Raquela; A Woman of Israel by Ruth Gruber - Goodreads
Jan 1, 2001 · Alive with the courage of a rare woman and a rugged nation, Raquela tells the powerful and deeply moving story of an Israeli woman who knew passionate love, great …
Raquela Prywes - Wikipedia
A ninth generation Jerusalemite, Raquela is the chief protagonist in the eponymous book, written by Ruth Gruber, who, in 1978, spent a year in Israel writing the life story. The book won the …
Raquela: A Woman of Israel - Ruth Gruber - Google Books
Oct 19, 2010 · 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 …
Raquela: A Woman of Israel|Paperback - Barnes & Noble
Oct 19, 2010 · 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 …
Raquela: A Woman of Israel Kindle Edition - amazon.com
Oct 19, 2010 · 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 - raquela
RAQUELA is a singer/songwriter and Billboard Dance/House recording artist. Before that she was an award winning singer/actress performing leading roles on Broadway. Her powerhouse …
Raquela: A Woman of Israel - Israel Forever Foundation
The story of Raquela is a true story of the founding of the State of Israel, and the healing of a nation of survivors, told through the eyes of an Israeli nurse/midwife who personally treated …
