Research Catalog

Title

Hebrew women join the forces : Jewish women from Palestine in the British forces during the Second World War / Anat Granit-Hacohen ; translated by Ora Cummings.

Author

Granit-Hacohen, Anat, 1959-

Publication

Elstree ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2017.

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Details

Description

xv, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm

Summary

"During WWII some 3,600 Jewish women from Palestine volunteered to serve in the British armed forces in the Middle East. For the first time ever Jewish women joined the army, wore uniform, left home to defend their homeland and to support the Jewish people around the world. The Council of Women s Organizations, headed by Hadassah Samuel, spearheaded the recruitment. This recruitment was in defiance of all conventional male thought. Not least because these women were joining the British Army a foreign and colonial army and this created a unique situation that cast gender and nationalist issues in a new light, these subjects are tackled here for the first time. Using archival research and 60 last voice interviews, Granit-Hacohen tells the story of these women: their reasons for enlistment; their social background and status; the arguments over recruiting them at all. Their military roles are analysed from a gender perspective. She also discusses the locations where they were stationed and the nature of their service there; their relations with their British colleagues; their involvement with illegal activity as members of underground organizations and the Jewish and national identity which they developed during their service. Although this female initiative was conceived in the spirit of equality, and the women who served developed positive views on the roles of women in society during their service, after the war there was disappointment as to the lack of change to how women were treated in Palestinian, and later, Israeli society."--Book jacket flap.

Subject

• Great Britain. Auxiliary Territorial Service
• World War (1939-1945)
• 1917-1948
• World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Jewish
• Jewish women soldiers > Great Britain > History
• World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female
• Jewish women soldiers
• Military participation > Female
• Military participation > Jewish
• Palestine > History > 1917-1948
• Great Britain
• Middle East > Palestine

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-406) and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-3202

ISBN

• 9781910383100
• 1910383104

OCLC

966238551

Author

Granit-Hacohen, Anat, 1959- author.

Title

Hebrew women join the forces : Jewish women from Palestine in the British forces during the Second World War / Anat Granit-Hacohen ; translated by Ora Cummings.

Publisher

Elstree ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-406) and index.

Chronological Term

1917-1948

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781910383117

Research Call Number

JFE 17-3202