Hannah Senesh’s example of Jewish pride and sacrifice gains renewed attention in our anxious era

More than 80 years after she parachuted into Yugoslavia as part of the only military operation in World War II that attempted to rescue Jews, the Jewish poet and kibbutznik Hannah Senesh is having her moment.

The play “ Hannah Senesh ” is running through Nov. 9 at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene in New York — an excellent one-woman show, starring Jennifer Apple, that draws directly from Senesh’s diary and poems.

A new book by Douglas Century, “ Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe’s Jews During World War II ,” is a work of nonfiction written with the pacing and tension of a thriller.

Early next year, the noted Israeli journalist Matti Friedman will tell the story of Hannah’s team of parachutists in “ Out