|  |  Stephen 
        G. Esrati
  Stephen Esrati, a retired Cleveland journalist, was 
        born in Berlin and arrived in Tel Aviv in 1933. He settled in Boston in 
        1937 and holds degrees in political science from Boston University. A 
        veteran of the U.S. Army in World War II and Korea, he was also a member 
        of the Irgun Zvai Leumi and was the first American hostage in Lebanon 
        in 1948. He is the author of COMRADES, AVENGE US, a novel about capturing 
        Nazi war criminals, which is available directly from him.  Photo Copyright ©1994 by Herbert
Ascherman Jr. Used with permisson of Stephen G. Esrati |