E-audiobook
Commander of the Exodus
Record details
- ISBN: 0786133198 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780786133192 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audiobooks, 2000.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 8:17:23. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by William Sutherland. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 119152 KB; MP3 file size: 233568 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Summary:
Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world," internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important work yet. Commander of the Exodus animates the story of Yossi Harel, a modern-day Moses who defied the blockade of the British Mandate to deliver more than 24,000 displaced Holocaust survivors to Palestine while the rest of the world (including the United States) closed its doors. Of the four expeditions commanded by Harel between 1946 and 1948, the voyage of the Exodus left the deepest impression on public consciousness, quickly becoming a beacon for Zionism and a symbol to all that neither guns, cannons, nor warships could stand in the way of the human need for a home. With grace and sensitivity, Kaniuk shows the human face of history.
