BROTHERS AT WAR is Jerold S. Auerbach's probing and poignant
exploration of the tragedy of the Altalena, the doomed ship whose
arrival in Israel ignited Jewish fratricidal conflict only weeks
after its declaration of statehood in 1948. The destruction of the
Altalena, with sixteen of its fighters killed by Israeli soldiers
in a bitter two-day battle, threatened the new nation with civil
war. This is the first history of the Altalena by a historian and
the first to locate it within the context of ancient Jewish and
contemporary Israeli history. The Altalena remains embedded in
Israeli memory, Auerbach suggests, still framing unresolved issues
of political legitimacy in the Jewish state. Identified as
"America's foremost intellectual exponent of right-wing Zionism,"
Jerold Auerbach is the author of nine books including HEBRON JEWS:
MEMORY AND CONFLICT IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL (2009), a history of the
world's oldest continuing Jewish community. He is Professor
Emeritus of History at Wellesley College.
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