Author
Sperling; Eli
Year
2024
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Language
English
Pages
21
ISBN
978-0-47290-431-0
Last Update
02-Jan-2026
Keywords
Sociology ; Jewish Studies ; Music
One afternoon in September 1947, forty-eight young demonstrators invaded the British Admiralty’s administrative offices, housed on the thirteenth floor of a Manhattan office building. The American Jewish students and their two leaders—both Jewish veterans of World War II—were protesting Britain’s recent refusal to allow entry to the Exodus ship full of European Jewish Holocaust survivors seeking safe harbor in British Mandatory Palestine and denounced the British Admiralty as “pirates” for returning “to Germany the passengers of the Exodus.” As the impassioned, mostly high school-aged protestors exited the building’s stairwells and piled into the office space, something quite distinctive...
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