Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawyer Abraham Isserman tried the goad. "When your honor interrupted me to misconstrue-" he began, but that was as far as Lawyer Isserman got. Said Medina in a level voice: "That is an impertinent statement ... If you keep this up ... there will be a day of reckoning. Perhaps this is an effort to wear me out.* That is not the proper conduct of an attorney. It may wind up by breaking me down, though I hope it doesn't. I tell you now-stop it! . . .If you persist you must take the consequences...
...Abraham slipped through the front lines and joined the Russian army. "I want to fight Germans," he said. After training only twelve days, Abraham was up in the front line for the first Russian big push toward Kharkov. In the Russian retreat to Stalingrad, he was wounded by an exploding land mine. When he rejoined his unit, it was for Zhukov's march to Berlin. The Russians sent him to the Potsdam officers' school...
...British ships blocked the path of the Haim Arlosoroff as it came into sight of the Promised Land. When British troops came on board, Abraham split off a three-foot length of lifeboat oar and fought back with the others. The British subdued the immigrants with tear gas and water from firehoses, deported them to Cyprus...
...months later, in Xylotombou camp, at a Sabbath-Eve meeting of the youth training group, Abraham met Zahava. She, too, had been captured by the British in Haifa Bay, almost within touch of the Promised Land. She had been in charge of a group of Zionist children on the ship Theodore Herzl and had traveled to the coast with her Belgian parents' blessings...
...Abraham courted Zahava for three months over a ten-foot fence of barbed wire. In August 1947, the camp rabbi performed the marriage ceremony according to the Jewish ritual. The American Joint Distribution Committee provided a metal ring for the bride...