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by Robert Satloff (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs (October 9, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1586485105
  • ISBN-13: 978-1586485108
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsImportant, Gripping Book on an Often Untold Chapter of the Nazi Holocaust
By John Kwok HALL OF FAME on November 16, 2006
Format: Hardcover
Robert Satloff, Executive Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, has written an important, gripping examination of a relatively unknown, often untold chapter of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews, that occurred when Nazi Germany and its Fascist allies and client states (Fascist Italy, Vichy France) occupied North Africa in World War II. "Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands" is a memorably terse account of Satloff's search for "The Righteous" among the Arab and Muslim worlds, a seemingly quixotic quest in search of those Arabs and Muslims who did try to protect their Jewish neighbors from persecution, imprisonment and execution by the Nazis and their Fascist allies. He embarked upon this search hoping to impress upon Arab intelligentsia in the Middle East of the necessity to come to grips finally with the harsh realities of the Holocaust; something that virtually all have failed to come to terms with since their acknowledgement of the Holocaust might lead eventually to recognizing the validity of Israel's right to exist, and of the important, though quite tragic, reasons why it was established as the world's only independent Jewish state. Much to his everlasting credit, Satloff has succeeded in his admirable quest, demonstrating that there were some Arabs and Muslims willing to protect Jews from Nazi persecution, even though others actively suppported it, while most remain indifferent to the worsening plight of their Jewish neighbors. Satloff's publisher, Public Affairs, deserves ample praise for recognizing the importance of Satloff's work by publishing this fine, if rather terse, book.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA well written and needed book
By Seth J. Frantzman HALL OF FAME on November 17, 2006
Format: Hardcover
This book is well written and covers an important and mostly overlooked subject. But the most poignant and important subject of this book is the authors main point. The book sets out to answer the question "was there one Arab who saved one Jew?" The introduction to this book shows that in general the most famous Arab to collaborate with the Nazis, Hajj Amin al-Husayni, and tangentially Ibn Rashid the coup leader in Iraq, are moderatly known and there stories covered. However little light, outside of Michel Abitbol's book, has been shed on the history of the Holocaust and Second World War in North Africa. SO the effort here is to shed light on the many work camps set up in Tunisia, Algeria and Libya during the war and show how thousands of Jews died in North Africa at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators. But the treatment was not universal. The Vichy government and the Italian government enacted race laws, but indiviudal local leaders didnt always extend the laws to Jews. However after 1941 the Nazis took an increasing role in North Africa, eventually sending the SS to round up and extort the Jews. In the end the Jews of North Africa and their communities which numbered some 300,000 were destroyed financially, stripped of rights and thrown out of all occupations, despite having been patriotic Frenchmen and Italians.

But the book aims to do something more than give us an intimate history of this. The author admits most Arab countries deny the Holocaust. However the view here is to examine the role of individual Arabs in saving Jews in North Africa so that Arab educators might be able to internalize the Holocaust as a heroic story of Arabs helping others, rather than the way it is taught as the Holocaust leading to the state of Israel.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsSalvaging "Lost" History
By Dai-keag-ity on January 23, 2007
Format: Hardcover
Before I go too deeply into this book, two general observations right off the top.

Firstly, considering all that has been written about the Second World War in its magnitude, to have a relatively untouched subject such as this be brought to light at this late date is truly welcome and laudable. Secondly, as I've often noted, an unfortunate side-effect of the coverage justifiably given to the evils of the Holocaust has been a certain infrequently-admitted desensitizing to the horror of the mass murder at its heart, and this new study of that period helps reawaken some comprehension of the utter dimension of cruelty that was behind the atrocities.

This book and its true stories of Arabs as rescuers of persecuted Jews (and sometimes as pro-Fascist collaborators who oppressed the Jews in North African labor camps) is a meaningful read for any scholar, or for the curious-minded. Telling tales of bravery in a time of great danger, there are many feel good moments, foremost Tunisian statesman Mohamed Chenik's clever and brave duel of wits and nerves with the occupying Nazis, courage on his part that saved Jewish lives, but there is also a scattering of disheartening tales, too, showing no culture has a monopoly on indecency.

I think anyone who deems peace between Jews and Arabs to be impossible would do well to consult the history recorded here. Not only is it a fact that traditionally Jews received better treatment when dwelling in Muslim nations than in Christian ones, but many Muslims regarded the slaying of Jews, identified in the Koran as "a People of the Book" to be a direct sin against God.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Well researched

Published 10 months ago by Kae Knight
4.0 out of 5 starsInteresting

The material was very interesting. I didn't know much in general about WW2 in North Africa let alone about the Jewish plight in North Africa. Read more

Published on June 28, 2012 by Jesse
5.0 out of 5 starsA fresh and surprising look at the Holocaust in Arab lands

As an historian educated at Oxford, Harvard, and Duke, and trained in several foreign languages including French and Arabic, Robert Satloff certainly carries the credentials to... Read more

Published on June 3, 2010 by John M. Balouziyeh
3.0 out of 5 starsArabs risked theri lives to save Jews from labor/concentration camps...

Most of us don't think about the Holocaust effecting North Africa. But, since a number of North African Countries, e.g. Read more

Published on August 19, 2009 by Kathy Felgran
5.0 out of 5 starsA Jewish Diogenes in Search of the Righteous. More needed.

The book opens with a reference to a line in Casablanca by SS Major Strasser: "It is possible that the French Authorities will find a reason to put him (Victor Lazlo) in a... Read more

Published on July 28, 2009 by L. King
4.0 out of 5 starsA personal voyage of discovery

This book documents its author's travels around the Mediterranean world in search of Arab individuals who went out the way to help Jews escape the Holocaust. Read more

Published on November 26, 2008 by Newton Ooi
5.0 out of 5 starsDifficult to put down

After cringing through the first half of the book where north African Arabs horrifically persecute Jews, it was a relief when I finally came to accounts of courageous Arabs,... Read more

Published on February 25, 2008 by Stacey
3.0 out of 5 starsA North African perspective

I received this book "Among the righteous" as a gift through amozon.com from dear friends who knew of my background. I am of North African origin. Read more

Published on November 19, 2007 by Noureddine Hadjeb
5.0 out of 5 starsInteresting book on little known facts

The "righteous" would be those who risked their lives to help the unfortunate....in this case Arab Jews during the holocaust. We remember the WWII battles in North Africa. Read more

Published on June 22, 2007 by S. R. Schnur
5.0 out of 5 starsArabs & Jews: a complex story

Robert Satloff follows Germany's genocide plan to wipe out the Jews in North Africa during World War II. Read more

Published on February 12, 2007 by Rhea Dorn

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