Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands

I admit I am happily learning new things every month, even while I have been a HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE teacher for over 39 yrs. While listening
to the brief but unsettling ranting of the current leader of Iran wishing to eliminate the entire populace of Israel, I got to wondering. Aside from what
the Jews did to Christ 2,000 years and that Jesus forgave, why is this national leader so upset with this nation?

Mr. Satloff has only one negative going for him in MY opinion, he repeats the same thing dozens of times. He is long winded. Nevertheless, he stays true to his objective of seeking those Jews and Arabs who knew of Arab involvement in both helping AND harming Jews who were living in non-European
nations.

I had never considered that any Jews lived outside of Europe. Maybe that makes me a closet bigot--it sure made me a closet dummy. I say closet
but perhaps country bumpkin is better cause I did not hide what I felt or practiced.

According to specific research carried out by Mr. Satloff, it appears that REGARDING the period prior to and during world war 11, many Arabs would say that
there were no Arabs involved in helping or harming Jews anywhere; that the Jewish thing was just between the Germans and the Jews. This
book proves otherwise.

It shows that many Jews lost their N. African homes in Tunisia, Libia, Morocco and elsewhere in African. This book also slows that some of the Arabs who had
enlisted in the French military took advantage of the Jews who were forced out of their homes, who were put in concentration camps in Africa
similar to ones in Europe, and that some of these Arabs were brutal.

Also, however, this book depicts in very very specific terms, how many arabs helped save the lives of Jews during the same time period and in the
same geographic areas.

The author interviewed dozens of people for this book and deduced that many arabs who did help the jews have been forced to choose between
being totally honest during interviews about how they treated Jews and being who their neighbors thought they were; indifferent or
intolerant of the Jewish community.