[(Exodus)] [by: Leon Uris]

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Preparing to write Exodus, for example, he read nearly 300 books, underwent a physical-training program in preparation for about 12,000 miles of travel within Israel and interviewed more than 1,200 people... As a land of contrasts , from the deserts of the Negev to the lush valleys of the Galil , from the tough and wonderful young Sabras to the ultra-Orthodox Jews of Jerusalem and Safed , Uris takes us on a journey through Israel's glorious past , hopeful present and divine future. Exodus was filmed on location in Israel and Cyprus. Although filming key elements of Exodus on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus was authentic, as it was the location of the British internment camps for Jewish refugees trying to reach Palestine, it was difficult, as the island was in the middle of a Greek insurgency against British rule, led by the Greek nationalist organisation EOKA. EOKA was considered a terrorist organisation by the British authorities in Cyprus, who were opposed to the filming of a movie on the island that seemed to combine anti-British sentiments with a storyline that appeared to show terrorist action could be successful. As a result, the British authorities refused to help Preminger with the logistical side of filming. The only assistance given by the British authorities was the placement of an armed guard on the large number of decommissioned rifles used as props in the film, to prevent them from falling into the hands of EOKA and being recommissioned. [6] Akiva is arrested, imprisoned in Acre fortress, and sentenced to hang after the Irgun bomb the King David Hotel. The British authorities fail to heed a warning of the planned bombing which resulted in dozens of fatalities. Ari plots an escape to save Akiva's life, and free Haganah and Irgun fighters imprisoned by the British military. Dov, who eluded capture after the hotel bombing, turns himself in to utilize his bomb-making expertise to facilitate the Acre Prison break.

Coming out of the service, he worked for a newspaper, writing in his spare time. In 1950, Esquire magazine bought an article, and he began to devote himself to writing more seriously. Drawing on his experiences in Guadalcanal and Tarawa he produced the best-selling, Battle Cry, a novel depicting the toughness and courage of U.S. Marines in the Pacific. He then went to Warner Brothers in Hollywood helping to write the movie, which was extremely popular with the public, if not the critics. Later he went on to write The Angry Hills, a novel set in war-time Greece. It is a digest of Jews living as a free people in their own land , the State of Israel, re-risen like a phoenix from the ashes of the holocaust When Ari is old enough, he joins the Palmach, the striking arm of the secret Jewish army called Haganah. He also becomes involved with Mossad missions, his first being in Berlin, where he helps desperate Jewish people obtain visas on the eve of World War II. Ari also loses Dafna, the girl he loves, in the ubiquitous violence of Palestine and becomes hardened by a life of defending hisland. Like many of his fellow Jewish people, he hates the British for their oppressive and unjust occupation of Palestine. When Exodus arrives safely in Palestine, Ari helps Kitty get a position as a nurse at the Gan Dafna village, named for Ari’s Dafna, where Karen will live. Kitty and Ari are attracted to each other, but do not act on their feelings. Although Kitty always feelslike an outsider in Palestine, she is an efficient and respected addition to life at Gan Dafna.It is important to see the beauty of Israel, at a time when the media do not portray all that is wonderful about this land and it's people , choosing instead to engage in prejudice and hate-filled invective , unfairly demonizing the Children of Israel , in the same way Hitler and Goebbels did. Emigration, the action and the phenomenon of leaving one's native country to settle abroad intentionally Roger Angell of The New Yorker wrote, "Such a bubbling pot of intrigue, violence, and hatred would almost seem to guarantee a lively film, but Mr. Preminger has approached his task with a painstaking reverence that would have been more suitable if he had been filming the original work of this title. He permits nearly everyone in his large cast to state his ideological and political convictions before and after each new turn of events, and the result is an awesome talkfest that is all too rarely interrupted by the popping of rifles." [15] It portrays the brave young soldiers of Israel whose determination is that 'We shall not perish again'. Forced displacement, the act of being forced to leave one's home or native country to be settled abroad

While the real-world 1947 Exodus ship affair and the representation of a ship of the same name in the Uris version differ greatly in regards to historical accuracy, they nonetheless played the same role in political and public respects. AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores Nominees" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 6, 2013 . Retrieved August 14, 2016. The 33rd Academy Awards (1961) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 . Retrieved July 15, 2020.

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Istrian-Dalmatian exodus, the exodus of Italians from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia after World War II Bosley Crowther of The New York Times described the film as a "dazzling, eye-filling, nerve-tingling display of a wide variety of individual and mass reactions to awesome challenges and, in some of its sharpest personal details, a fine reflection of experience that rips the heart." The film's "principal weakness," Crowther wrote, "is that it has so much churning around in it that no deep or solid stream of interest evolves—save a vague rooting interest in the survival of all the nice people involved." [1]