We Are Coming, Unafraid - The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War

Informationen zum Autor By Michael Keren and Shlomit Keren Klappentext This book tells the little-known stories of Jewish soldiers who served in the Jewish Legions during World War I. Three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of the Allies' Middle East campaign, recruiting soldiers from the United States, Canada, England, and Argentina. Drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, the book follows their journey at sea through unrestricted submarine warfare; by trains and trucks through Europe, Egypt, and Palestine; and their battlefield experiences. The authors show how these Yiddish-speaking young men forged a new kind of soldier identity with unique Jewish features, as well as an evolving sense of nationalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Leaving HomeChapter 3: In Distant LandsChapter 4: To the FrontChapter 5: On BraveryChapter 6: Hope and DisenchantmentChapter 7: The ChaplainChapter 8: An Aristocrat of SortsChapter 9: Memory and IdentityChapter 10: A Soldier Left BehindChapter 11: Existential ZionismNotesBibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Michael Keren, Michael Keren Keren, Shlomit Keren, Keren Michael, Keren Shlomit, Michael Keren/ Keren
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2010
• EAN: 9780742552746
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5274-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; First World War, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, RELIGION / Judaism / History, Judaism, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I