Underground to Palestine
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Underground to Palestine is a 1946 book by I. F. Stone
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In Underground to Palestine Stone reports as a journalist on the hundreds of thousands of European Jewish displaced persons attempting to reach the Jewish homeland in Mandatory Palestine in 1946.
Writing in The Globe and Mail
, John R. MacArthur
judges the book better than John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World
.
Stone travels with the Haganah
to Europe, where he joins a group of displaced persons as they travel across the continent seeking a clandestine port of embarcation, joins an illegal convoy, runs the British blockade, and lands illegally in Mandatory Palestine.
Stone wrote that the DPs made strenuous efforts to reach the Jewish homeland of Israel although it would have been far easier to emigrate to the United States because, “They have been kicked around as Jews and now they want to live as Jews. Over and over I heard it said: ‘We want to build a Jewish country. ... We are tired of putting our sweat and blood into places where we are not welcome.' ... These Jews want the right to live as a people, to build as a people, to make their contribution to the world as a people. Are their national aspirations any less worthy of respect than those of any other oppressed people?”
, which won the Newspaper Guild of New York, Page One award in 1947.
There was a Pantheon / Random House edition in 1978. However, Underground to Palestine has long been out of print. Possibly because of Stone's unpopular position favoring a binational Palestine.
I. F. Stone
Isidor Feinstein Stone was an iconoclastic American investigative journalist. He is best remembered for his self-published newsletter, I. F...
.
In Underground to Palestine Stone reports as a journalist on the hundreds of thousands of European Jewish displaced persons attempting to reach the Jewish homeland in Mandatory Palestine in 1946.
Writing in The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...
, John R. MacArthur
John R. MacArthur
John R. "Rick" MacArthur is an American journalist and author of books about US politics. He is the president of Harper's Magazine.- Biography :...
judges the book better than John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World
Ten Days that Shook the World
Ten Days that Shook the World is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Grigory Zinoviev and Karl Radek, closely during his time in Russia...
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Stone travels with the Haganah
Haganah
Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.- Origins :...
to Europe, where he joins a group of displaced persons as they travel across the continent seeking a clandestine port of embarcation, joins an illegal convoy, runs the British blockade, and lands illegally in Mandatory Palestine.
Stone wrote that the DPs made strenuous efforts to reach the Jewish homeland of Israel although it would have been far easier to emigrate to the United States because, “They have been kicked around as Jews and now they want to live as Jews. Over and over I heard it said: ‘We want to build a Jewish country. ... We are tired of putting our sweat and blood into places where we are not welcome.' ... These Jews want the right to live as a people, to build as a people, to make their contribution to the world as a people. Are their national aspirations any less worthy of respect than those of any other oppressed people?”
Publishing history
The book first appeared as a series of articles published in PM (newspaper)PM (newspaper)
PM was a leftist New York City daily newspaper published by Ralph Ingersoll from June 1940 to June 1948 and bankrolled by the eccentric Chicago millionaire Marshall Field III....
, which won the Newspaper Guild of New York, Page One award in 1947.
There was a Pantheon / Random House edition in 1978. However, Underground to Palestine has long been out of print. Possibly because of Stone's unpopular position favoring a binational Palestine.