The odyssey of the ship with three names
Subtitle: smuggling arms into Israel and the rescue of Jewish refugees in the Balkans in 1948
By: Renato Barahona
Series: Center for Basque studies, occasional papers series -- No. 23
Publisher: University of Nevada, Reno, Center for Basque Studies
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Reno, Nevada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781935709527
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Jews; History; Emigration and immigration; Jewish refugees; Illegal arms transfers; Holocaust survivors; Historic ships; Kefalos 1917-1948 (Ship)
Description: "Singular history of the S.S. Kefalos, a tramp steamer crewed mainly by exiled Spanish Republicans that, among its many lives, transported arms and refugees from Mexico and the Balkans to the fledging state of Israel after World War II"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The rust-bucket Kefalos (1917-1948); title: Oko and Gladys: two lives intertwined; title: Tampico and arms (June 24-August 3, 1948); title: The crew and the long voyage to Tel Aviv (August 3-September 8); title: Neapolitan interlude: preparing for a new mission (September 12-November 8); title: Rescues of refugees in the Balkans and their aftermath (November-December, 1948; January, 1949)"; title: Provided by publisher.