- Emigration and immigration, Exodus 1947 (Ship), Fiction, History
A novel about the struggle to establish the modern state of Israel, the story concerns a plan to smuggle Jewish refugees from a detention camp in Cyprus to Palestine.
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- Author
- Leon Uris
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 626
- Publisher
- Farlag A. Ermoni, "Gesharim", W.Kimber
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- Italian, German, French, yid
- ISBN
- 9783453000681
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Leon Marcus Uris, novelist, was born in Baltimore, Maryland to William and Anna Uris. His father was a paperhanger who had immigrated from Poland. He was educated in schools in Maryland and Virginia, but he never graduated from high school. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps when he was seventeen and served in the South Pacific and New Zealand during World War II. He worked briefly as a driver for a newspaper, but after 1950 he was a full-time writer. Uris published his first novel, *Battle Cry*, when he was 29. He sold the novel to a film producer and wrote the screenplay. He is well-known for his screenplay, *Gunfight at the OK Corral*. His novel, *Exodus*, was an overwhelming success, and as
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