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- At the age of 20, he emigrated to Palestine, where Ben-Gurion worked on farms and joined the Zionist movement. From 1910 he called himself David Ben-Gurion. He subsequently also studied law at the universities of Constantinople and Salonika. Because of his Zionist views, Ben-Gurion was then expelled from Palestine by the Turkish government. After the outbreak of World War I, Ben-Gurion joined a Jewish battalion in the British army to fight for the liberation of Palestine from Turkish rule.
After the war, his socialist convictions led him to join the ranks of the Jewish Workers' Movement, for which Ben-Gurion served as general secretary in Palestine under the British mandate from 1921 to 1935. In 1930 he was also promoted to head of the socialist "Mapai" party. In 1933, Ben-Gurion was accepted into the leadership of the World Zionist Organization. From 1935 to 1948, Ben-Gurion presided over the Jewish Agency, the most important Jewish representative body during the British mandate over Palestine. In this role, Ben-Gurion gained important experience in local self-government and in diplomatic exchanges with the British authorities.
The "Jewish Agency" and its chairman were therefore considered the core of the political leadership elite of a future state of Israel. Indeed, after Israel's proclamation in May 1948, Ben-Gurion rose to become its first prime minister. The conflicts with the Arab world that immediately followed prevented his government from fully implementing the economic policy program that the statesman had prepared to promote industry and agriculture. Nevertheless, Ben-Gurion was able to promote significant infrastructure measures and the economic use of natural resources.
After the statesman initially withdrew from politics in 1963, just two years later he joined a splinter group that had split off from the "Mapai" party. This political commitment was followed by his final withdrawal into private life in 1970. He has since been recognized as one of the founding fathers of the State of Israel. In 1973 he published the book "Israel, the History of a State".
David Ben-Gurion died on December 1, 1973 in Tel Aviv. - Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Maria Burdecka was born on 3 April 1935 in Plonsk, Mazowieckie, Poland. She is an assistant director and production manager, known for Rok pierwszy (1960), Rodzina Milcarków (1962) and Lydia Ate the Apple (1958).- The exact year of Anzia Yezierska's birth is a mystery: various sources give it as 1880, 1881, or 1885. Her family emigrated to the United States in the 1890's, part of the great wave of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe. They settled on the Lower East Side of New York. Yezierska had only a few years of formal schooling before beginning a series of menial jobs in order to support her family. She nevertheless succeeded in winning a scholarship to Columbia University Teachers College, and went on to teach elementary school in New York from 1908-1913. Her first stories were published in 1915. All of Yezierska's fiction is to some degree autobiographical. 'Bread Givers,' for example, is a thinly-disguised account of her rebellion against her tyrannical father, and 'Salome of the Tenements,' while based in part on the real-life social reformer Rose Pastor Stokes, also draws on Yezierska's brief romantic involvement with the philosopher John Dewey. Yezierska was a popular author in her day, but her lifelong distaste for wealth and those who possessed it made her uneasy with her own success. She summed up her ambivalence in the essay 'This is What $10,000 Did to Me,' an account of her experience in Hollywood while working on 'Hungry Hearts (1923)', which was based on her stories.
- Konstanty Pagowski was born on 19 October 1890 in Plonsk, Poland, Russian Empire [now Plonsk, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Zakazane piosenki (1947), Dom na pustkowiu (1949) and Spotkania w mroku (1960). He died on 25 April 1967 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Paul Lamkoff was born on 14 December 1888 in Plonsk, Poland, Russian Empire [now Plonsk, Mazowieckie, Poland]. Paul was a composer. Paul died on 11 March 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.