Among the RighteousPublicAffairs, 30 oct 2006 - 288 páginas 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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... forced labor set up in Arab countries, sketching the personal tales of the thousands of Jews—both Ashkenazim and Sephardim—interned at “punishment camps” in the Sahara, or assessing the way scores of Arab leaders and officials dealt ...
... forced labor set up in Arab countries, sketching the personal tales of the thousands of Jews—both Ashkenazim and Sephardim—interned at “punishment camps” in the Sahara, or assessing the way scores of Arab leaders and officials dealt ...
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... forced labor, deportations, the yellow star. The Scemla boys decided they had to fight back. They told their father they wanted to escape German-held territory to join Allied forces in western Tunisia. From there, they could join in the ...
... forced labor, deportations, the yellow star. The Scemla boys decided they had to fight back. They told their father they wanted to escape German-held territory to join Allied forces in western Tunisia. From there, they could join in the ...
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... forced labor, confiscations, deportations, and executions. The goal was to isolate Jews, to persecute them, and—in Tunisia, at least—to lay the foundation for their eventual extermination. Virtually no Jew in North Africa was left ...
... forced labor, confiscations, deportations, and executions. The goal was to isolate Jews, to persecute them, and—in Tunisia, at least—to lay the foundation for their eventual extermination. Virtually no Jew in North Africa was left ...
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Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab ... Robert Satloff No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2006 |
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Página 159 - In general, when the data on hand clearly demonstrate that a non-Jewish person risked his or her life, freedom, and safety in order to rescue one or several Jews from the threat of death or deportation to death camps, without exacting in advance monetary compensation, the rescuer is qualified for serious consideration of the Righteous title. This applies equally to rescuers who have since passed away. A person recognized as a "Righteous among the Nations...
Página 40 - ... He shuns us like a case of an extremely contagious disease." "The army brass hats and the people of the Prefecture whom we arrested hate us," one of the younger men said. "They hate us because we know what cowards they are. You should have seen how miserably they acted when they saw the tommy guns, the brave Jew-baiters. The chief of the secret police, who has been of course restored to his position, kneeled on the floor and wept, begging one of my friends to spare his life. Imagine his feeling...
Página 162 - Thanks to Hitler, [of] blessed memory, who, on behalf of the Palestinians revenged in advance against the most vile criminals on the face of the earth. Although we do have a complaint against him, for his revenge on them was not enough.
Página 40 - It is now almost impossible for one of us to see Mr. Murphy," the old doctor said. "He shuns us like a case of an extremely contagious disease." "The army brass hats and the people of the Prefecture whom we arrested hate us," one of the younger men said. "They hate us because we know what cowards they are. You should have seen how miserably they acted when they saw the tommy guns, the brave Jew-baiters. The chief of the secret police, who has been of course restored to his position, kneeled on the...
Página 6 - Jewish tradition says, if you save one life. it is as if you have saved a whole world.
Página 29 - To govern a peasant nation such as France, it is better to have someone whose origins, however modest, are deep in our soil, [rather] than to have a subtle Talmudist."32 While he did not conform to the repulsive physical and moral caricature of "the Jewish body...
Página 43 - The Jews are already a dead people; there is no need to oppress them cruelly, especially since the Arabs, the traditional enemies of the Jews, now show signs of feeling sorry for them.
Página 8 - And the other alternative? Strasser My dear Mademoiselle, perhaps you have already observed that in Casablanca, human life is cheap. Good night, Mademoiselle.
Página 165 - The crimes perpetrated by the Nazis against humanity, with all their atrocities, are no more than a tiny particle compared to the Zionists' terror against the Palestinian people.
Página 2 - that's history" is commonly used to dismiss something as unimportant, or no relevance to current concerns, and, despite immense investment in the teaching and writing of history, the general level of historical knowledge in our society is abysmally low. The Muslim peoples, like everyone else in the world, are shaped by their history, but, unlike some others, they are keenly aware of it.
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