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Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands
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November 2006
On Sale: October 30, 2006
251 pages
ISBN: 1586483994
EAN: 9781586483999
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Non-Fiction
Thousands of people have been honored for saving Jews during
the Holocaust-but not a single Arab. Looking for a hopeful
response to the plague of Holocaust denial sweeping across
the Arab and Muslim worlds, Robert Satloff sets off on a
quest to find the Arab hero whose story will change the way
Arabs view Jews, themselves, and their own history. The story of the Holocaust's long reach into the Arab world
is difficult to uncover, covered up by desert sands and
desert politics. We follow Satloff over four years, through
eleven countries, from the barren wasteland of the Sahara,
where thousands of Jews were imprisoned in labor camps;
through the archways of the Mosque in Paris, which may once
have hidden 1700 Jews; to the living rooms of octogenarians
in London, Paris and Tunis. The story is very cinematic; the
characters are rich and handsome, brave and cowardly; there
are heroes and villains. The most surprising story of all is
why, more than sixty years after the end of the war, so few
people-Arab and Jew-want this story told.
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