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Jewish Military History Book Club – June

June 16, 2021 @ 5:30 pm EDT

Purpose of the club – Review books about American and other Jews who have made significant contributions to military history as well as books on Jewish military history.

This book club is a project of the Jewish War Veterans Post 256 Patriotism Committee.

June’s book: The Ablest Navigator

This action-packed biography focuses on a 1944 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who was one of only fifty Jewish midshipmen commissioned in his class during World War II. In the Pacific, Lt. Shulman s destroyer survived both a typhoon and a Japanese kamikaze aircraft attack. After leaving the U.S. Navy and returning to civilian life, he volunteered to help the Haganah, the paramilitary force of the Jewish Agency for Palestine headed by David Ben-Gurion. Shulman had been introduced to Ben-Gurion by his mother, who was an executive with Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. Working in New York City, he helped to buy surplus warships for the Haganah’s clandestine sealift that brought Holocaust survivors from Europe to Palestine.

In early 1948 Ben-Gurion called the 25-year-old Shulman to Israel to set up an academy to train officers and NCOs to man ships of Israel s fledgling navy, which at that point only had the refugee vessels. Beginning with almost no assets, within three months, now-Kvarnit (Commander) Shulman took the Israeli squadron into action against enemy ships, and even against one vessel fighting with Israeli forces. After Israel won its independence most of the 1,200 American and Canadian volunteers went home. Shulman, with his wife and infant son, remained in Israel, settling in Haifa, which would be their home for the next forty years. After Shulman died in 1994, a stained-glass window was dedicated in his memory at the U.S. naval Academy s new Uriah P. Levy Chapel

Wandres book fully documents Shulman s role in helping to launch the navy of new Israeli nation. Based on interviews and correspondence with former U.S. Navy shipmates and Machal volunteers, Israeli and American archives, and declassified Secret U.S. Department of State documents, The Ablest Navigator provides a unique window into Israel s history and its relations with the United States.

This narrative biography relies on interviews and correspondence with former U.S. Navy shipmates and Machal volunteers, Israeli and American archives, and declassified Secret U.S. Department of State documents.

Club moderator

Marc Liebman, a retired Navy Captain and Naval Aviator who is a Vietnam and Desert Storm combat veteran. He is an award-winning author of seven successful novels, four of whom are Amazon #1 Best Sellers and an amateur historian who has been writing and lecturing about American Jews who have made significant contributions to American Military History.

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Date:
June 16, 2021
Time:
5:30 pm EDT
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Website:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87868146516?pwd=VDBzM2s3UUhwMnErY28ybVF0TXJKdz09

Organizer

Dr. Harvey Bloom Post 256, Dallas, TX

Details

Date:
June 16, 2021
Time:
5:30 pm EDT
Event Category:
Website:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87868146516?pwd=VDBzM2s3UUhwMnErY28ybVF0TXJKdz09

Organizer

Dr. Harvey Bloom Post 256, Dallas, TX