• A beloved writer: Ruth Gruber is an iconic figure in American journalism, whose personal story is as fascinating as those she chronicles.
• National Jewish Book Award-winner: This biography offers a lens to one of the most important periods in Jewish history in the twentieth century.
• Women’s history: While the biography highlights major moments in Israeli history, the story of Raquela Prywes is also an intimate look at one woman’s accomplishments in a treacherous world.

A National Jewish Book Award–winning biography and a fascinating look at the early years of Israel’s statehood through the eyes of a pioneering nurse

A National Jewish Book Award–winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel’s statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.

During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywes was a witness to history. She delivered babies in a Holocaust refugee camp and on the Israeli frontier. She crossed minefields to aid injured soldiers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and organized hospitals to save the lives of those fighting the 1967 Six-Day War. Along the way, her own life was a series of triumphs and tragedies mirroring those of the newly formed Jewish state.

Raquela is a moving tribute to a remarkable woman, and an unforgettable chronicle of the birth of Israel through the eyes of those who lived it.