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Beginning in August 1946, stateless and visaless Jews—most of them survivors of the Nazi death camps—who sought to immigrate to the Land of Israel were intercepted by the Royal Navy and deported to the nearby island of Cyprus, where they were detained in camps surrounded by barbed wire. Despite occupying a dramatic and fateful position in modern history, this saga has remained largely inaccessible due to the widespread dispersal of the primary sources and the linguistic difficulties presented by them. To address these problems, this book scrutinizes the scholarly literature, consulting hundreds of primary sources—many of them previously unknown—on three continents, bringing together interviews with scores of eyewitnesses, and translating foreign-language terms into English. The result is a comprehensive, meticulously footnoted guide that uses such tools as maps, a detailed timeline, and biographical entries to make this riveting saga accessible to a broad audience of scholars and general readers.

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Yitzhak Teutsch studied Latin and Greek at Carleton College, Library Science at Simmons College, and Jewish History and Philosophy in Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, USA. After working as a librarian in the Harvard College Library and the Harvard Law School Library, he worked as a systems librarian and project manager at Ex Libris Ltd and as director of the Archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, both in Jerusalem. In 2012, his project to locate the birth records of the babies born in the Cyprus camps received extensive media coverage in Israel, Cyprus and England.

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