Creating a Homeland by Dan Gielan

Creating a Homeland by Dan Gielan

Creating a Homeland is the true story of two families from Eastern Europe whose dedication, sacrifice, and pioneering spirit helped bring about the modern State of Israel as a homeland for Jews anywhere: Sam, the young man with two engineering degrees who speaks seven languages who gives up a promising engineering career in France to work as a technician fixing refrigerators in the desert of Palestine; Leah, the young girl who joins the Haganah underground at age 15 and risks her life to defend the nation; The newlyweds who cannot acknowledge their underground clandestine activities in their quest to build a country, not even to each other; and others who come from all over the world to help a nascent nation being threatened with extinction.

But there is also Isaac, the secular Jew who believes his financial success and position in Latvian aristocracy will shield him and his family from Hitler, only to be so painfully crushed by the cruelty of the Nazi regime.

This is an inspiring tale of love, tenacity, and courage in the face of almost insurmountable odds. But as with all families, it is also full of personal successes and failures, joys and disappointments.

This is a story of ordinary people who rose to the occasion with extraordinary dedication and commitment, risking it all -- because that is what the times required.

Gielan, Dan: - Born in Tel Aviv during WWII, Dan Gielan was subjected to the British rule over Palestine, witnessed the establishment of the State of Israel, and lived through the ensuing War of Independence and the 1956 Sinai Campaign. While in high school Dan also attended the Israeli Conservatory and Academy of Music and graduated with a degree in music. Following 3 years of military service in the Armored Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces, he studied at the Technion in Haifa and emerged with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. During the Six Day War Dan served as a communications officer for an armored battalion in the Sinai, and in 1968 he came to the United States to pursue an MBA degree at Columbia University in New York. When the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973 he volunteered to return to Israel and help defend it as a tank platoon commander in the IDF. During his career in the U.S. Dan founded and managed three Information Technology companies, lectured extensively at universities and professional symposia, and was recognized as one of the pioneers of the IT industry. In his previous book Zero-Zero (1998) Dan warned of two threats to modern society: our over-reliance on uncontrolled computer systems in all facets of modern existence, and the loss of personal privacy, both of which have come to pass as issues central to our lives today.

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ISBN 13	9781732657618
ISBN 10	1732657610
Title	Creating a Homeland
Author	Dan Gielan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Negev Books
Year published	2020-08-15
Number of pages	472
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