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Altalena / written and directed by Ilana Tsur.
LIBRA DVD 001 642
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Altalena (Ship).
- Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- Revisionist Zionism--Palestine.
- Revisionist Zionism.
- Videodiscs.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (053 min.) : sound, color / black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, [2007]
- Language Note:
- Narrated in English ; occasonal Hebrew with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "On June 20, 1948, the Altelena arrived in Israel carrying 930 World War II refugees and a stockpile of ammunition amassed by the Irgun ... Ben Gurion gave an order to shell the ship ..." -- container.
- Credits:
- Photography, Yoʹav Kosch ; translators, Michal Alexander, Granit Eliaz.
- Notes:
- Originally filmed in Israel in 1994.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- OCLC:
- 213333096
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