Harold Kraushar — 1930–2018.
In June 1948 Harold Kraushar sailed on the ship Altalena, which carried soldiers and weapons for the Zionist cause to what was then Palestine. He served as a machine gunner with the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the military organization that fought for the creation of the Jewish State of Israel. After the War of Independence he joined the American Veterans of Israel and later served as its President. In April of 2018 he was one of five surviving veterans of the war to attend memorial services at West Point for Colonel David “Mickey” Marcus, the American officer who lost his life during the siege of Jerusalem.
During his career, Harold was an agent for a number of artists and literary figures, including Allen Ginsberg, and later headed the paperback division of Bookazine, a book wholesaler. Throughout his life he was an avid reader of poetry and non-fiction.
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