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Perfidy. (book) Perfidy is a book written by Ben Hecht in 1961. The book describes the events surrounding the 1954–1955 Kastner trial in Jerusalem. The book is based on transcripts from the trial and concludes that in 1944 Rudolf Kastner deliberately withheld from the Jews in Hungary knowledge that the trains the Nazis were putting them on ...
Jan 28, 2019 · Ben Hecht worked on the book from 1955 to 1961. His main source was the protocols of the trial in Jerusalem in 1953-55, at which the Israeli government opposed Malkiel Greenwald, who accused government official Rudolf Kastner of collaborating with the Nazis. During the Second World War, official Jewish leaders heading the Jewish Agency, the ...
Jan 1, 2001 · August 1, 2020. "Perfidy" is a very powerful book. It must be read with the understanding that it is Ben Hecht's response to an Israel founded and dominated by the Mapai party and its leaders. Hecht, clearly a part of the Jabotinsky camp, had many issues with Ben Gurion, Moshe Sharett, and other leaders of Mapai.
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Jan 1, 1997 · Perfidy. Kindle Edition. by Ben Hecht (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.7 131 ratings. See all formats and editions. Perfidy... An exploration of the Kastner affair: a conspiracy, a violation of conscience, criminal betrayal. A true classic! History that reads like a mystery novel when villains parade themselves as heroes and the real heroes ...
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Books. Perfidy. Ben Hecht. Milah Press, 1997 - Fiction - 281 pages. In the Kastner affair, as it is known, a seemingly insignificant refugee from Hungary accuses an important member of David Ben Gurion s Mapai party of collaborating with the Nazis during the murder of Hungarian Jewry. Over 30 years out-of-print, Perfidy is back, with murder ...
Ben Hecht’s “Perfidy” 1. With each passing year, the bureaucratically organized murder by the Nazis of six million Jews, because they were Jews, becomes increasingly harder to understand. The gigantic proportions of the catastrophe dwarf the puniness of the rescue. How was it possible, we repeat and repeat, for the Germans to have killed ...
Perfidy. Paperback – Aug. 30 2018. by Ben Hecht (Author) 4.7 111 ratings. See all formats and editions. In the Kastner affair, as it is known, a seemingly insignificant refugee from Hungary accuses an important member of David Ben Gurion’s Mapai party of collaborating with the Nazis during the murder of Hungarian Jewry.
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