Rick Richman

A very recent book, on a subject rarely covered. In 1940 three very different people, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion and Jacob Jabotinsky traversed the United States, from their refuge in Britain, seeking to raise a Jewish army to fight Hitler. Roosevelt's and the British Government's attitude made this an act of futility. The momentum and consciousness both of Jewishness and the imminent doom of more than one-third of the Jews then living created the momentum that culminated in the creation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.

The three speakers (except for Jabotinsky, with Menachem Begin as his successor) eventually became the founding fathers of the State of Israel, albeit with Menachem Begin among the loyal opposition.

My only quibble is that the endnotes consumed almost half the book. However, quite a stirring and well-written story.… (mer)