Blessed Is the Match: The Story of Jewish Resistance

Marie Syrkin

1947

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 development of an underground movement in the ghettos and concentration camps of Europe. Then I would describe the attempts at rescue directed from the neutral…

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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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