The Anzac Zionist Hero: The Life Of Lieutenant-Colonel Eliazar Margolin

Rodney Gouttman provides the reader with a biography of a quiet, engaging, and unassuming figure, a man of deeds rather than words. Eliazar Lazar Margolin participated in the primal foundation myths of two distinct nations, Australia and Israel. A pioneer farmer in Palestine whose exploits won the admiration of local Arabs, an original Anzac, a commander in the Jewish Legion before and after the Armistice of the First World War, he became, albeit briefly, the first Jewish military governor in the Holy Land for eighteen hundred years. This narrative is thoroughly grounded in the national and communal events of his day. Margy, as he was affectionately called, was buried twice, with full military honors, first in Australia and then in Israel.