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Singing the Land, Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

Author

Sperling; Eli

Year

2024

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Language

English

Pages

21

ISBN

978-0-47290-431-0

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Last Update

19-Sep-2024

Keywords

Sociology ; Jewish Studies ; Music

Description

One afternoon in September 1947, forty-eight young demonstrators invaded the British Admiralty’s administrative offices, housed on the thirteenth floor of a Manhattan office building. The American Jewish students and their two leaders—both Jewish veterans of World War II—were protesting Britain’s recent refusal to allow entry to the Exodus ship full of European Jewish Holocaust survivors seeking safe harbor in British Mandatory Palestine and denounced the British Admiralty as “pirates” for returning “to Germany the passengers of the Exodus.” As the impassioned, mostly high school-aged protestors exited the building’s stairwells and piled into the office space, something quite distinctive...

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