Balaam’s Prophecy: Eyewitness to History, 1939-1989 Lau-Lavie, Naphtali

$95.00

A hard cover edition with charcoal boards, gilt lettering and unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. There is foxing and toning throughout but the text and black and white photographs are clear and legible.There is some rubbing and wear to the edges of the book and dust cover, There is some staining to the edges oof the book.

Publisher: Cornwall Books

Publication Date: 1998

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SKU H000200
Description
A personal account of Jewish History in the years 1939-89. Written by Ambassador Naphtali Lau-Lavie, journalist and diplomat, who survived the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and later became a leading personality in the government of Israel, this book reflects upon major historic events during the second half of this century as experienced by the author.

About the Author:

Naphtali Lau-Lavie was born in 1926 in Krakow, Poland. During the Holocaust he was imprisoned in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, and was liberated on April 11, 1945. In July he immigrated to Palestine, and joined the Hagana and fought in the War of Independence in 1948. He pursued Academic and Talmudic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Lavie was a journalist at Ha’aretz, Israel’s leading newspaper, before becoming spokesman at the Ministry of Defense. In 1981 he became the Israeli Ambassador and consul-General in New York.
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Weight 1.090 kg