Matti Friedman is an award-winning journalist and columnist at The Free Press. He joins the show to discuss his latest book, Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe. Whom were the Zionist Jews fighting on behalf of the British during World War II? What happened to the legendary Zionist figure Hannah Senesh? And how did a war story without battlefield success help give birth to a nation?
01:45 - The scene in British Mandate Palestine
07:30 - British MI9 unit
07:38 - Jewish military units
08:41 - Rescue missions into Europe
14:21 - Secret meeting in Tel Aviv
17:29 - Palestinian Jews’ view of European Jewry
21:51 - Hannah Senesh
24:46 - Parachuting technology in WWII
26:44 - Sword of Honour trilogy
29:48 - Discrimination against Jewish agents in Europe
32:54 - Chaos at the end of WWII
34:13 - Hannah Senesh’s doomed mission
43:10 - The escape of Hannah’s mother
47:43 - The importance of heroes and myths
49:06 - Understanding Zionism
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