Jeffrey Weiss & Craig Weiss
I am my brother’s Keeper
American Volunteers in Israel’s war for Independence
Schiffer Military History

Based on recently declassified documents and more than two hundred interviews, “I am my brother’s keeper” tells the story of the more than one thousand Americans and Canadians, Jews and non-Jews, who fought in Israel’s War of Independence. Thirty-eight of the volunteers lost their lives in the struggle for a Jewish state. Others were wounded, and some ended up as prisoners of war of the Jordanian and Egyptian armies. This book captures the powerful story of those Jews and Christians who stood up to be counted at a critical time in Jewish history. Only three years after the Holocaust, these volunteers helped establish the State of Israel.