Commander of the Exodus

Hailed by The New York Times as one of the most inventive brilliant novelistsin the Western world internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniukturns his ... » 

Hailed by The New York Times as one of the most inventive brilliant novelistsin the Western world internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniukturns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important work yet. Commanderof the Exodus animates the story of Yossi Harel a modernday Moses who defiedthe blockade of the British Mandate to deliver more than 24000 displacedHolocaust survivors to Palestine while the rest of the world closed its doors.Of the four expeditions commanded by Harel between 1946 and 1948 the voyage ofthe Exodus left the deepest impression on public consciousness quicklybecoming a beacon for Zionism and a symbol to all that neither guns cannonsnor warships could stand in the way of the human need for a home. With graceand sensitivity Kaniuk shows the human face of history. He pays homage to theyoung Israeli who was motivated not by politics or personal glory but by thepleading eyes of the orphaned children languishing on the shores of Europe.Commander of the Exodus is both an unforgettable tribute to the heroism of thedispossessed and a rich evocation of the vision and daring of a man who took itupon himself to reverse the course of history. «