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Raquela: A Woman of Israel

  • Author: Ruth Gruber
  • ISBN 10: 1453258302
  • ISBN 13: 9781453258309
  • Edition: B&N epub
  • Release: October 19, 2010
  • Format: Paperback (478 pages)
  • List Price: $14.99
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    List Price: $14.99

    Tags: Biographies & Memoirs, Ethnic & National, Jewish,

    Book Description:
    A National Jewish Book Award–winning biography: A fascinating look at the early years of Israel’s statehood experienced through the life of a pioneering nurseDuring her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywes was a witness to history. She delivered babies in a Holocaust refugee camp and on the Israeli frontier. She crossed minefields to aid injured soldiers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and organized hospitals to save the lives of those fighting the 1967 Six-Day War. Along the way, her own life was a series of triumphs and tragedies mirroring those of the newly formed Jewish state.Raquela is a moving tribute to a remarkable woman, and an unforgettable chronicle of the birth of Israel through the eyes of those who lived it.  

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