A National Jewish Book Award-winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel's statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.
During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywes was a witness to history. She delivered babies in a Holocaust refugee camp and on the Israeli frontier. She crossed minefields to aid injured soldiers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and organized hospitals to save the lives of those fighting the 1967 Six-Day War. Along the way, her own life was a series of triumphs and tragedies mirroring those of the newly formed Jewish state.
Raquela is a moving tribute to a remarkable woman, and an unforgettable chronicle of the birth of Israel through the eyes of those who lived it.
- ISBN10 0930395174
- ISBN13 9780930395179
- Publish Date 1 January 1993
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Holmes & Meier Publishers
- Edition 1993rd Hadassah ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 417
- Language English