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In 1929 Albert Londres, a non-Jew and renowned journalist, set out to document the lives of Jews at this time. His travels to England, Eastern Europe and finally Palestine produced the literary masterpiece, The Wandering Jew has Arrived. In the East End of London, Londres is moved by the unswerving faith of the Jews. In Eastern Europe he is astounded by the misery and plight he witnesses. The bleak picture is redeemed by his gentle humour, sharp observations and the unforgettable portraits he paints of the exotic individuals he encounters along his way. Londres vividly depicts the birth of Zionism and the wave of pogroms that propelled Jewish immigration to Palestine at the turn of the 20th century. In Palestine, he discovers the new metamorphosed Jew, and his succinct, harrowing descriptions of the Arab massacres of the Jews of Hebron and Safed expose an age-old animosity that is still very much alive today. Presciently, Londres investigation provides startling insight into how the unthinkable -- the Holocaust -- could happen, sweeping across Europe barely a decade after the publication of his book. His evocative, passionately and very personally told story transports readers back to a pivotal moment in history and offers an invaluable perspective on Jewish life in the early twentieth century, on the nascent days of the State of Israel, and on the ongoing strife that has engulfed the region ever since. The Wandering Jew Has Arrived is as relevant today as when first penned.

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I highly recommend The Wandering Jew Has Arrived, especially for students of history, and anyone interested in Jewish life in Europe and Palestine before the Holocaust. - Dave Lan, Israellycool Read today, The Wandering Jew Has Arrived can be seen as a chilling and prophetic piece of historical reportage. And so, a dozen years after the Balfour Declaration, he began his investigations into the economic status of the Jews in Europe and their views on Zionism. - Diane Cole, Jewish Review of Books The quality of Londres noticing is itself worthy of our notice. It allows us to take a fresh, retrospective glance, however aching, over the nearly nine decades that have intervened between his way of noticing and ours. Our profession is not to give pleasure, nor to do harm, Londres once said. It is to twist the pen into the wound. In giving voice to a Jewish world on the eve of rupture, unhealed to this day, his pen found its full measure of poetry and eloquence. The Haaretz

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"""Albert Londres (1884-1932), was a pioneer of investigative journalism in the early 20th century. In his search for the truth, Londres traveled across the world documenting cruelty and injustice and his reports for the French press helped change public opinion and policies towards penal colonies, forced labor, mental asylums and the exploitation of black Africans. The Wandering Jew Has Arrived is based on a series of articles he wrote for the French newspaper Le Parisien. The Albert Londres Prize, on a par with the Pulitzer Prize, is awarded every year to the top two journalists in France."""

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