Creator Bio
Marie Syrkin
1899–1989
Born in Switzerland, Marie Syrkin made Zionism her life’s cause, founding a Labor Zionist journal and championing Israel in newspapers, magazines, and books. Her busy pen produced a chronicle of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, a three-volume biography of her friend Golda Meir, translations of Yiddish poetry, and much more. In addition to her writing, Syrkin taught English literature at Brandeis University. She was the founder of Jewish Frontier, which she edited, advised, and contributed to for more than fifty years.
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Blessed Is the Match: The Story of Jewish Resistance
Why do I begin with the parachutists? Were I to trace the story of Jewish resistance and rescue chronologically, I would have to use a different order. I would have to begin with the gradual…