5/12/2023 0 Comments Stern by Zev Golan![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a valuable addition to the tragically small number of English language books available at the time on the history and ideas of these brave men who fought to create a modern Jewish State and remains a must read for those who want to understand them. This made it an easy choice for Herut North America’s second Zionist History Book of the Month.įree Jerusalem is the history of the early days of the Irgun (or Etzel), the LEHI (or Stern Group), the Haganah, and lesser known groups such as Abba Achimier’s Brit HaBirionim and Rabbi Moshe Zvi Segal’s Brit HaShmonaim. Zev Golan, an expert on Israel’s pre-state underground Jewish militias, changed this situation with his book Free Jerusalem: Heroes, Heroines, and Rogues Who Created the State of Israel, published in 2003 by Devora. More often than not, the only material available was limited to poorly translated memoirs. However, if one wanted to read more about these organizations and their deeds, good literature on the subject was hard to find. With the election of Menachem Begin as Israel’s prime minister in 1977 and the subsequent premiership of Yitzhak Shamir, US Jews were exposed to the stories of Zionism’s militant undergrounds on an entirely new level. Photo: public domain via Wikipedia Commons. Wanted poster offering rewards for the capture of LEHI fighters Yakov Eliav, Yitzhak Shamir, and Natan Friedman-Yelin. ![]()
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