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A National Jewish Book Award–winning A look at the early years of Israel’s statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse. During 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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A National Jewish Book Award–winning biography and a fascinating look at the early years of Israel’s statehood through the eyes of a pioneering nurse
About the Author
RUTH GRUBER is the author of fifteen books, including Exodus 1947 and Haven. She worked as a foreign correspondent in Israel for the New York Herald Tribune for twenty years, during which she spent nine months traveling through Israel with Raquela Prywes and interviewing almost all of the people who appear in this book. To verify that every word is true, Raquela initialed each page of Ruth's manuscript.
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