No balm in Gilead : a personal retrospective of mandate days in Palestine / Sylva M. Gelber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelber, Sylva M., 1910-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gelber, Sylva M., 1910-.

Gelber, Sylva M.

Palestine--History--1929-1948.

Palestine.

Physical Description:

xv, 284 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Ottawa] : Carleton University Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a rare personal record by a Canadian of the last fifteen years of the British mandate in Palestine. Gelber writes about her experiences as a young Jewish woman during the birth of Israel, and without attributing blame, describes worsening tensions among the factions involved.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Genesis

On the Land 1932–1933

Meandering 1933

Stumbling into a Career 1933–34

Strange Encounters 1934–36

Rude Awakening 1936

Medical Myths in a Modern Milieu 1937

A World Closing in 1938–1939

Mostly Music

War’s Distant Rumble 1939–1940

Near the Eye of the Hurricane 1941–1943

On his Majesty’s Service 1942

After North Africa 1943–1945

Canadian Interlude 1946

The Alien Virus 1946

Point Counterpoint 1947

Close Call

Full Circle

Exodus

Glossary

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-7735-4019-9

0-7735-7359-3

OCLC:

1394872258