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Exodus Summary & Study Guide Description
Exodus Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Exodus Plot Summary
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Exodus is the epic story of two generations of Jews striving to reclaim Palestine as a homeland after 2,000 years of dispersion.
On Cyprus in 1946, long-lost American friends reunite. Mark Parker is a foreign correspondent, and Kitty Fremont is a nurse. Meanwhile, two other old friends, Ari Ben Canaan and David Ben Ami, from the Jewish underground, also secretly reunite. Mossad is training and re-moralizing the Jews detained in British camps for the coming battle over Palestine. Ari risks 300 children aboard the ship Exodus in an attempt to save 250,000 desperate people in Europe. Kitty is gradually moved from hearing detainees' stories about surviving the Holocaust. Karen Hansen Clement becomes Kitty's ward, and she tells the harrowing story of Dov Landau surviving the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz. Kitty is convinced to join Ari's plot, not knowing that the Exodus is intended to awaken the world to the inhumanity...
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