Author: BEN HALPERN, SHALOM WURM (EDITORS)
Title: The Responsible Attitude: The Life and Opinions of Giora Josephthal
Description: Schocken Books, 1966. Hardcover. 269 pages, clean text, good binding, endpapers browned, one edge browned, DJ has creases, chipping - piece missing at the upper edge, edge tears. Josephthal was director of the Absorption Dept of the Jewish Agency to receive, shelter and orient immigrants from post-Hitler Germany into Israel. The essays, reports, letters and speeches collected in this volume are divided into three main section: the German Period, 1932-38; the Jewish Agency Period 1951-56; and the time of party and government service 1956-62. Illustrated with 8 pages of photos, including photos of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Levi Eshkol, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor David Lawrence of Philadelphia; David Ben Gurion and Golda Meir; Tom Mboya and Ogden Reid. Good in Fair dust jacket .

Keywords: Biographical Sketch Josephthal, Gloria, -- 1912-1962 Miriam Eshkol Israel Palestine Levi Eshkol Eleanor Roosevelt Chaim Weizmann Chaim Weizmann Judaism Jewish History


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