{"product_id":"i-am-a-palestinian-jew-a-memoir-by-margalit-edelson","title":"I Am A Palestinian Jew A Memoir By Margalit Edelson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003eMargalit Edelson's Eyewitness Account To The 1948 Birth of the State of Israel and Her Role in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003eIrgun.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eWith historical background, this memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003eI Am A Palestinian Jew,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e covers the period between Margalit Edelson's birth in 1930 in Jerusalem through the period until the birth of the new state of Israel in 1948. She is a Jewish child living in Palestine under the British Mandate. Her family home, living conditions, Arab attacks, her family's friendship with an elite Arab family, her school environment, visits to the Kotel, and the onset of World War II are described. So are the ordinary things that children like to do.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eAs a teenager, Margalit joins the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003eIrgun\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e. She writes about her experiences as a member of this underground organization, including her unique connection with the commander of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003eIrgun\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e, Menachem Begin, while he is on board the about-to-be-blown-up Altalena.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003e\"It was difficult to set up our state. Tens of generations and millions of wanderers from one land of massacre to another ... burning at the stake and torture in the dungeons, the sweat and toil of generations of pioneers and builders, the uprising of rebels to crush the enemy, the gallows, the banishment beyond seas, the cages in the deserts – all this was necessary for Hebrew independence to be declared in at least part of the country, the whole of which is ours.\" ... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eA portion of what Menachem Begin, commander of the Irgun, tells the new Jewish Nation on May 15, 1948, from the Irgun radio station Kol Zion Halochemet – Voice of the Fighting Zion. (Menachem Begin becomes the Prime Minister of Israel in 1977.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in 1930, Margalit Edelson grew up in Palestine, home to Palestinian Jews and Arabs.  Britain ruled Palestine through a mandate from the League of Nations, the predecessor to the UN. Though Hebrew was her mother tongue and the language spoken around her, the London sponsored Evelina de Rothschild School for Girls which she attended, provided her with English fluency.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMargalit explains about her book: With historical background, my memoir covers the period between my birth in 1930 and the birth of Israel in 1948.  I am a Jewish child, living in Palestine under British Mandate.  My family home, living conditions, Arab attacks, my family’s friendship with an elite Arab family, my school environment, visits to the Kotel, and the onset of WWII, are described.  So are ordinary things I do when I am a child. When I am a teenager, I joined the Irgun and describe my experiences as a member of the underground organization fighting the British.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book provides an accurate eyewitness account to the birth of the State of Israel. Appropriate for libraries, unbiased presentation of the facts around modern Jewish history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mazo Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43875423584421,"sku":"978-1956381382","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/8860\/9445\/files\/978-1956381382_f89e20a7-1a2a-4c84-8e87-7be2097a419f.jpg?v=1725094103","url":"https:\/\/www.israelbookshop.com\/products\/i-am-a-palestinian-jew-a-memoir-by-margalit-edelson","provider":"IsraelBookShop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}