The Settlers,

by Meyer Levin

Book Overview

No Synopsis Available.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671211544
• ISBN13: 9780671211547
• Release Date: April 1972
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 832 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful historical fiction

What a great portrayal of an often neglected time in world history. The founding of a new nation amidst world war and the toll it takes on a large extended family is accurately depicted by Levin. Jews, Arabs, Germans and British are shown in both positive and negative aspects and the history is described well.

Learning about the birth of Israel & why the non-ending war.

Now seemed a good time, better late than never, to learn about Israel and Palistine and to try to understand why they can never seem to find peace. After reading The Haj which gave me a Palestinian viewpoint, I chose The Settlers and followed up with The Harvest. They are very well written, informative and moving. It begins at the turn of the century and follows a Russian-Jew family escaping the increasingly dangerious situation developing there. Levin paints a very clear picture of their dreams, goals, strengths and weaknesses. Life was not easy there either but to them it was home. During WWI they fought to help Jews from all over Europe escape death. It is 832 pages that is hard to put down. And reading The Harvest is then a MUST. I feel that I can now better understand some of the problems we see on TV every day.

900 Pages and You'll Finish it in a Week

The Settlers is a fabulous novel about a family who settles in Israel before World War I. There are far too few books written about early Aliyot to Israel. This book gives a fabulous insight to the struggle and hard work that it took to build Israel. I can't wait to read the sequal!