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Brelis, Dean [Constantinos Christos], Ben Shahn

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Little Brown & Co, 1959

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Year of publication
1959
Place of printing
Boston
Author
Brelis, Dean [Constantinos Christos]
Publishers
Little Brown & Co
Edition
1st US Edition.
Keyword
ISRAEL REFUGEES GREEK AMERICAN WRITER
Cover description
Near Fine - Slight Chips
Illustrator
Ben Shahn
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

Greek American journalist & writer. [Born Constantinos Christos Brelis on April 1,1924 in Newport, R.I. Died Nov 2006.] After serving in the US military in 1948 he entered a DP camp in Europe and went to Israel with a group of refugees. This novel "opens in Marseilles in 1948, a few months before Israel became a nation. It describes the adventures and the relationships of a band of Jewish refugees who leave a detention camp on a freighter bound for the Promised Land". and reflects some of the experiences of that time and place which he observed as a journalist. Jacket illustrated by . by Ben Shahn.262-p.