Rescue: The Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews [Hardcover]

Ruth Gruber (Author)

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Descendants, according to legend, of a night of love between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Ethiopia's 28,000 black Jews historically have been forced to live in isolated poverty and forbidden to emigrate. Rescue reveals how most of these people, with Israeli and American assistance, succeeded in reaching the Promised Land by 1985, after an epic trek across the desert and the overcoming of such obstacles as lions, dangerous river-crossings, would-be rapists and robbers, the constant threat of starvation and the violent enmity of the Marxist Ethiopian government. Gruber, the only American journalist to witness "Operation Moses," presents it as a great, stirring saga, focusing on the fortunes of a small number of the refugees. A thoroughly satisfying story, topped off with a description of the absorption of the black Jews into Israeli society.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 234 pages
• Publisher: Atheneum Books; 1ST edition (November 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068911771X
• ISBN-13: 978-0689117718
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,181,835 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ruth Gruber is an award-winning Jewish American journalist, photographer, and humanitarian. She was born in Brooklyn in 1911 and is the author of nineteen books, including the National Jewish Book Award-winning biography Raquela (1978).

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews by Ruth Gruber, June 8, 2009

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Interesting reading that has given me a better of the Ethiopian Jews and the role they played in the Bible and in the effects they had on people of color in the Bible.

5.0 out of 5 stars Rescue, May 4, 2011

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Patricia S. Langnau (Pensacola, Fl) - See all my reviews
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This is another wonderful book by the awesome Ruth Gruber. I heard about the Ethiopian airlift when I was in

Israel--it was told by someone involved and was a highlight of the trip. This book fills in the details and more.

Everyone should read this book, but that is what I think of all Ruth Gruber's books. She is a wonderful storyteller.

Pat