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Raquela

A Woman of Israel

Ruth Gruber
4.6
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Pages
434
Year
2010
Language
English
Publisher
Open Road Media

About

A National Jewish Book Award-winning biography: A fascinating 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.

Related Subjects

  • Medical (incl. Patients)
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Women
  • History & Theory
  • Political Science
  • Israel & Palestine
  • Middle East
  • History
  • Holocaust
  • 20th Century
  • Modern

Reviews

"Ruth Gruber is an adventure in herself."
New York Herald Tribune
"You couldn't invent Ruth Gruber... not even in a movie."
Richard Holbrooke, Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan

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