The Aaronsohn Saga - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Aaronsohn Saga write by Shmuel Katz. This book was released on 2007. The Aaronsohn Saga available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A celebrated botanist, who had won world fame as the discoverer of 'wild wheat, ' Aaron Aaronsohn (1876 1919) created the first Jewish Agricultural Experiment Station in Palestine then under Turkish rule in 1910. His venture was supported and funded from the u.s. by a group which included Julius Rosenwald, Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter (both later on the u.s. Supreme Court), Judah L. Magnes (later President of the Hebrew University), and Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah. In World War I, reacting against the oppressive Turkish regime, Aaronsohn founded a Jewish spy organization, nili, to help the British in the forthcoming battle for Palestine. Here is told the story of Aaronsohn, who is revealed as a master of strategy, and his sister Sarah, whose self-sacrificing devotion to the cause shows her to be a great historic personality in her own right. Historian Shmuel Katz here rectifies the absence of a comprehensive biography of Aaronsohn and the nili spy ring. Meticulously researched British War Office intelligence documents and the letters and field reports of nili s central figures illustrate the crucial contribution made by nili to the British conquest of Palestine. Powerfully written, with deep sensitivity to the emotional lives of the people portrayed, The Aaronsohn Saga is both solid history and a marvelous read.
The Woman Who Fought an Empire
The Woman Who Fought an Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Woman Who Fought an Empire write by Gregory J. Wallance. This book was released on 2018-03-01. The Woman Who Fought an Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine—who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring. Following the outbreak of World War I, Sarah learned that her brother Aaron had formed Nili, an anti-Turkish spy ring, to aid the British in their war against the Ottomans. Sarah, who had witnessed the atrocities of the Armenian genocide by the Turks, believed that only the defeat of the Ottoman Empire could save the Palestinian Jews from a similar fate. Sarah joined Nili, eventually rising to become the organization’s leader. Operating behind enemy lines, she and her spies furnished vital information to British intelligence in Cairo about the Turkish military forces until she was caught and tortured by the Turks in the fall of 1917. To protect her secrets, Sarah got hold of a gun and shot herself. The Woman Who Fought an Empire, set at the birth of the modern Middle East, rebukes the Hollywood stereotype of women spies as femme fatales and is both an espionage thriller and a Joan of Arc tale.
Lawrence and Aaronsohn
Lawrence and Aaronsohn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lawrence and Aaronsohn write by Ronald Florence. This book was released on 2007. Lawrence and Aaronsohn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How a second lieutenant from Oxfordshire and a Jewish agronomist from Palestine mapped the land and conflicts of the modern Middle East. Historian Florence provides new perspectives on the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the turmoil of World WarI
Spies in Palestine
Spies in Palestine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spies in Palestine write by James Srodes. This book was released on 2017-09-12. Spies in Palestine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sarah Aaronsohn was a twenty–first century woman in a nineteenth–century world. She and her siblings were born as part of the first wave of Jewish immigrants who fled the pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1880s, settling in the province of Syria–Palestine. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the settlers had come a dramatic distance in creating the Eretz Israel of their Biblical prophecies. Sarah's home village of Zichron Ya'akov brought prosperity to their lands between the Mediterranean coast and the Mount Carmel range. But when the Ottoman Turkish Empire sided with Kaiser Wilhelm II and the other Central Powers in World War I, the Jewish settlements faced cruel oppressions. This book describes how the Aaronsohns, one of the most prominent families in the province, came to commit themselves and their comrades to the Allied side and how they formed the NILI espionage organization to spy against the Turkish Army. Late in the war, in 1917, Sarah assumed command of the spy network as the group's penetration of the Turkish army reached a critical juncture. Sarah was idolized by T.E. Lawrence, the fabled Lawrence of Arabia who dedicated his flowery biography, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, to her.
Aaron Aaronsohn, Agricultural Explorer
Aaron Aaronsohn, Agricultural Explorer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aaron Aaronsohn, Agricultural Explorer write by Gabriel Davidson. This book was released on 1928. Aaron Aaronsohn, Agricultural Explorer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
