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	Mickey Marcus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marcus is the best known Israeli Machal (the Hebrew acronym for "volunteers from outside Israel") soldier, glorified in a 1966 Hollywood movie with Kirk Douglas as Marcus in Cast a Giant Shadow.
		Born in Brooklyn, USA, Marcus was extremely bright and athletic, and was accepted at West Point in 1920 and graduated with the class of 1924.
		Marcus was appointed as Commander of the Jerusalem front, and given the rank of aluf, brigadier general.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mickey_Marcus (655 words)

	Profiles of Jewish GI's: David "Mickey" Marcus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		David "Mickey" Marcus was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1902.
		In 1947, Col. Marcus was discharged from the U.S. Army.
		Mickey was unable to respond to the sentry's warnings, because he didn't speak Hebrew.
	www.gijew.com /profiles/marcus (243 words)

	David Marcus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Marcus is an Irish Jewish editor who has been a lifelong advocate and editor of Irish-language fiction.
		Born in Cork in 1924, Marcus has edited numerous anthologies of Irish fiction and poetry, inclusing the Phoenix Irish short stories collections.
		In 2001 Marcus published Oughtobiography - Leaves from the diary of a hyphenated Jew, an autobiographical review of his life as an Irish Jewish person and as a figure in the field of Irish literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Marcus (159 words)

	Mickey Marcus
		David Daniel Mickey Marcus, a tough Brooklyn street kid, rose by virtue of his courage and intelligence to help save Israel in 1948 and become its first general since Judah Maccabee.
		Convinced that war was imminent, Marcus voluntarily went back into Army uniform in 1940, and after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor served as executive officer to the military governor of Hawaii.
		Marcus helped draw up the surrender terms for Italy and Germany and became part of the occupation government in Berlin.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/marcus.html (841 words)

	David 'Mickey' Marcus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That December, Marcus was approached in New York by Major Shlomo Shamir, representing the "Provisional Jewish Government." Shamir had been sent to America to recruit a military expert to help organize and train the army of the soon-to-be-born state.
		In April, Marcus returned briefly to the United States when his wife fell ill. The British, meanwhile, tired of being caught in the middle of a no-win situation, decided to withdraw their troops from Palestine early, on May 15.
		Marcus also ordered another assault on Latrun, but it was more of a spoiling attack to keep the legion off-guard and to divert attention away from the construction.
	www.thehistorynet.com /mh/bldavidmarcus/index1.html (1602 words)

	Manifest Publications offers Ted Berkman's biographies.
		Mickey scoured the landscape; the only door that was open was his own.
		Mickey had faced many challenges, as intercollegiate welterweight champion, New York Commissioner of Corrections, but never one where the stakes were so high.
		The secret road Mickey was carving, across terrain that would have given pause to a mountain lion, would have to be built literally under the noses of the enemy.
	www.manifestpub.com /castshadowexcerpts.htm (908 words)

	Jewish Heroes in America
		David "Mickey" Marcus is a hero who fought for the two countries he loved, America and Israel, and was recognized for military exploits by both their armies.
		Marcus was instrumental in organizing schools for officers, writing manuals, teaching the various uses of armament and helping to develop a fighting spirit within the army.
		Marcus was a person blessed to become a hero in two countries that he loved.
	www.fau.edu /library/br102.htm (571 words)

	DVD : Cast a Giant Shadow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cast a Giant Shadow is based on Ted Berkman's biography of Colonel Mickey Marcus, the American soldier who served as an adviser in the fight to establish the state of Israel in 1948.
		Marcus (played by Kirk Douglas) must decide whether to settle into peacetime America or follow his more natural, combative instincts abroad--a dilemma symbolized by a love triangle involving wife Angie Dickinson and Senta Berger as a soldier whom he falls for in Palestine.
		Mickey Marcus (Kirk Douglas) greatly contributed to the birth of the Jewish homeland.
	www.morroccan.com /ItemId/B00005S8KR (541 words)

	Marcus
		David Daniel Marcus, the son of a Jewish family of Romanian origin, was born in 1902 in New York.
		At the beginning of 1948, he complied with a request to serve as military adviser and came to Israel, where he was known under the nickname of "Mickey Stone".
		On June 11, 1948, at dawn, shortly before the first cease-fire took effect, General Mickey Marcus was accidentally shot by a sentry who did not recognize him, as he went outside the perimeter fence of his headquarters, near Abu-Gosh.
	www.jafi.org.il /education/jajz/noar/sites/Marcus.htm (331 words)

	Debbie's Days Of Our Lives tapes for 1990
		mickey thinks kayla should change her plead, but steve is against it.jack asks jen to work with him on kayla's verdict.
		mickey tells kim cal can request a paternity test, and visitation rights, as she feels her marriage crumbling around her.
		marcus tries to convince kayla to get some rest, as she refuses to leave steve's side, as steve continues to have the dream of dying.kayla brings stephanie to steve, to try and draw him back, as steve has the dream and see stephanie as a teenager(stephen nichols real life daughter, Vanessa).
	www.geocities.com /soap_fan_4ever/DOOL_1990.html (15015 words)

	mickey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marcus served during World War II and parachuted into Normandy on D-Day as a member of the 101st Airborne Division.
		Marcus would then use his experience as a federal attorney in the 1930’s to plan the legal and security procedures for the Nuremberg trials.
		Although Marcus never reaped the benefits of his work because of his death six hours after the called cease-fire, the ancient Jewish custom of placing a rock on the headstone is a reminder and a symbol of the great work he did.
	www.usma.edu /publicaffairs/PV/050520/mickey.htm (851 words)

	Mickey Marcus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Because Marcus was also a graduate of the Brooklyn law school, he participated in drawing up the surrender terms of Germany and Italy.
		These experiences impressed on Marcus the depth of European hatred for Jews, a hate which is unabated to this day and continues to produce daily attacks on Jews from Sweden to Italy and from Russia to England.
		It is the story of the life of Mickey Marcus as portrayed by Kirk Douglas.
	www.jbuff.com /c021204.htm (769 words)

	The American Israel Public Affairs Committee: America's Pro-Israel Lobby. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After the war, Colonel Marcus was asked to help relocate the thousands of liberated Europeans, and he saw the horror that had been visited on Europe's Jews.
		For his efforts, Marcus -- an American -- was named the first general in the army of Israel since Judah Maccabee -- 2,000 years earlier.
		General Marcus was killed just six hours before the ceasefire that would guarantee the borders he helped secure.
	www.aipac.org /policy2002daschle.html (2860 words)

	Mickey Marcus: Israel?s American General
		Marcus was subsequently named chief of the War Crimes Division with responsibility for planning the procedures used at the Nuremberg trials.
		When the Jewish section of Jerusalem was about to fall, Marcus ordered the construction of a road to bring men and equipment to break the Arab siege just days before the United Nations negotiated a cease fire.
		In gratitude, prime minister Ben Gurion named Mickey Marcus Lieutenant General, the first general in the army of Israel in nearly two thousand years.
	www.ajhs.org /publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=286 (984 words)

	West Point Rites Honor Col./ Commissioner Mickey Marcus
		Mickey Marcus graduated West Point with the Class of 1924.
		Surviving members of that class and relatives of deceased members are holding 75th Year commemorative events that include reference to him as a symbol of the kind of unselfish service rendered by those graduates.
		At the Marcus gravesite in the military cemetery, the Academy Color Guard joined in the flag rituals.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/colmick2.html (920 words)

	Cast a Giant Shadow - Video(VHS)
		Comment: Mickey Marcus (Kirk Douglas) greatly contributed to the birth of the Jewish homeland.
		Mickey Marcus was primarily a big picture military planner.
		Marcus had to find a way to unite them to fight the common foe, the self pitying and bigoted Arabs.
	www.wensstyle.com /product/6302923042.html (1314 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) is the true-life story of the American soldier David "Mickey" Marcus.
		Marcus (played by Kirk Douglas) is asked to shape the untrained and disorganized Israeli army into a more potent force.
		(The real-life Marcus did notable duty in WWII, including parachuting during D-Day even though he wasn't trained as a paratrooper.) Over objections from his US commander (John Wayne) and his wife (Angie Dickinson), Marcus accepts.
	turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,79775\|31550\|12750,00.html (467 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Cast a Giant Shadow (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I think the women in the film are sexy; Dickinson and Berger and add to the film in that they love their man, Marcus but fear for his safety as he does what has to be done because humanity insists it be done.
		Melville Shavelson wrote and directed this sprawling biographical action picture about (Colonel) "Mickey" Marcus (Kirk Douglas), a West Point graduate and an adviser to President Roosevelt during W.W.II, who, at the request of the Israelis, went to there in the late 40s to re-organize their army.
		In this account, based on a book by Ted Berkman, Mickey Marcus is the master strategist who leads the Israelis to victory in the war with the Arabs.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005S8KR (1869 words)

	DVD REVIEW - Vault Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After a brilliant career with the U.S. army, WWII hero and Jewish American Mickey Marcus (Kirk Douglas) is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding its Arab foes.
		Against the wishes of his wife (Angie Dickinson), Mickey makes the journey and begins transforming a rag-tag underground army into a first-class fighting machine.
		But as the threat of war looms, Mickey must also confront his growing attraction to beautiful activist Magda Simon (Senta Berger).
	www.dvdreview.com /movies/VaultTitle.asp?movie_id=13728 (80 words)

	Hero Commissioner: Col. Mickey Marcus
		The DOC Emerald Society Pipe Band conducted the Presentation of the Colors at the commemorative event in the Colonel David Marcus Playground at East 5th St. and Ave.
		Marcus' service with DOC began Jan.19, 1934, when he was named First Deputy Commissioner.
		Marcus was laid to rest at West Point.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/colmicky.html (555 words)

	ALT.DAYS Episode #146
		MICKEY: The declaration of Steve's death was a mistake, obviously.
		MICKEY: There's the issue of the property that you and Steve shared while you were married.
		MICKEY: I'll write everything up and then hold onto it until you and Steve are ready to talk about these things.
	www.io.com /~jlc/alt_days/ad_eps/146.html (5185 words)

	Real Estate Weekly: Brooklyn park gets face lift
		In 1948, this playground was dedicated in memory of Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus.
		After the outbreak of World War II, Colonel Marcus was activated into the Army and participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, for which he was awarded several distinguished citations.
		Serving as Supreme Commander of the Israeli forces along the Jerusalem front, Colonel Marcus was killed on June 10, 1948 by friendly fire, a mere six hours before the first truce between Israelis and Arabs was to have gone into effect.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3601/is_7_51/ai_n7635242 (324 words)

	Scout.com: Men’s hoops 2005 recruits officially announced
		“Mickey” Perry, 6-2, 165, considered a top 125 prospect, was an honorable mention all-state selection last year at Proviso East High School.
		The relationships that have been built between our staff, our current players, along with Joe, Marcus and Mickey, and their respective families have been fantastic,” Ryan said.
		“Joe, Marcus and Mickey all have a burning desire to be Wisconsin Badgers and to experience success both on and off the basketball court during their upcoming college careers.”
	wisconsin.scout.com /2/317791.html (839 words)

	Cast a Giant Shadow
		Marcus is dramatically played by Kirk Douglas in one of the big screens most poignant films on the creation of the State of Israel.
		Marcus, who graduated from West Point, became the personal advisor to Ben-Gurion under the nom de guerre (war name) of Mickey Stone.
		He was Israel's first officer to receive the new rank of alluf (brigadier general).
	www.laemmle.com /series/ijffc/cast.html (128 words)

	Sony Pictures - DVD & PSP
		After a brilliant career with the U.S. army, WWII hero and Jewish American Mickey Marcus (Douglas) is called to the new state of Israel to build an army capable of withstanding its Arab foes.
		Against the wishes of his wife (Dickinson), Mickey makes the journey and begins transforming a rag-tag underground army into a first-class fighting machine.
		But as the threat of war looms, Mickey must also confront his growing attraction to beautiful activist Magda Simon (Berger).
	spedigital.com /homevideo/catalog/catalogDetail_DVD027616872982.html (168 words)

	Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		David 'Mickey' Marcus: Would you give up everything you love to fight an insane war for a little country that's gonna get its brains blown out in a couple of weeks?
		Cast a giant shadow is a wonderful moving true portrayal of Colonel "Mickey" Marcus of the Israeli army.
		I have actually been to where one of the battles happened in the film (Latrun) this is now an excellent tank museum which if anybody is visiting Israel should visit.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0060218 (402 words)

	ALT.DAYS Episode #110
		MICKEY: Typically, a spouse or parent or even a child, but in some cases, a sibling's approval is enough.
		JACK: (CONT'D) Mickey says the court won't allow the body to be exhumed without permission from a family member.
		MARCUS: Here's a picture of your mommy and Daddy Steve when they got married.
	www.io.com /~jlc/alt_days/ad_eps/110.html (4448 words)

	Find in a Library: Cast a giant shadow; the story of Mickey Marcus who died to save Jerusalem. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Find in a Library: Cast a giant shadow; the story of Mickey Marcus who died to save Jerusalem.
		Cast a giant shadow; the story of Mickey Marcus who died to save Jerusalem.
		WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/03423c8d665f9dd9.html (61 words)

	Cast a Giant Shadow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kirk Douglas stars as the military adventurer and freedom fighter Colonel David (Mickey) Marcus in this star-studded epic about the founding of the state of Israel.
		Not satisfied by the simple domestic life, in which Colonel Marcus finds himself after the end of World War II, he volunteers to join the fight for the liberation of Israel.
		But Marcus's initial thirst for adventure, becomes something more it becomes a patriotic and passionate commitment to Zionism.
	www.spiritofsinatra.com /pages/movies/cast_a_giant.html (75 words)

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