A Pacifist at Iwo Jima
A Pacifist at Iwo Jima

Author: Lee Mandel

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1476646767

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In the 1930s, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn was a distinguished scholar and vocal pacifist. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he had a change of heart and volunteered to serve as a chaplain in the US Navy. The first rabbi ever deployed with the Marine Corps, he found himself in the bloody battle at Iwo Jima. At war's end at the dedication of the 5th Marine Division cemetery, he gave a renowned speech known as "the Gettysburg Address of World War II." This biography is based on multiple sources, including Gittelsohn's personal papers, beginning with his family's emigration from Russia to the United States. From the growing antiwar movement after World War I, to the training of military chaplains and the anti-Semitism among their ranks, important events further contextualize Gittelsohn's life, including his illustrious postwar career and service on President Harry S. Truman's Committee on Civil Rights.

Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds
Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds

Author: Paul Genoni

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2009-05-05

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1443810622

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'This landmark contribution to Australian literary studies is the first collection of critical responses to the work of one of our most important novelists, Thea Astley. As well as essays from leading Australian and international critics, dating from 1967 to the present, it includes three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her and the first Thea Astley lecture, given by Kate Grenville in 2005.' Professor Elizabeth Webby Sydney University