AMONG THE RIGHTEOUS Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands ROBERT SATLOFF

"[H]e tells a riveting tale…He settles in North Africa, gathers clues and builds a convincing case. By the end of the book, he presents a persuasive case that Arabs did indeed behave as "righteous" men and women in the fight against fascism…The story twists this way and then that way, shuttling back and forth relentlessly from good news to bad news, and from despair to elation. Few political stories come as complex as this one, and few stir up as much passion." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Robert Satloff's new book is sure to rankle Arabs who insist that the Holocaust never happened." –Moment magazine

"[T]hough historians have long recognized that other Jewish communities peripheral to Eastern and Western Europe were decimated…few, if any, have examined the fate of the half-million Jews in Arab lands during World War II. Now Robert Satloff, executive director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, has done just that—and his book will force a rewriting of the history of the Holocaust." -- New York Post

"The writing is quite accessible, and Satloff provides much information on the suffering of Jews in labor and concentration camps." --Jewish Book World

"Satloff's efforts to tell the story of Arab behavior -- both complicity and heroism -- during the Holocaust are important. The stories of rescuers of all faiths and ethnicities should be told. Not only is their courage part of the history of the Holocaust, but it also gives the lie to bystanders' claims that nothing could have been done." --Washington Post

"Satloff provides inspiring and heartbreaking personal accounts of survivors of this under explored aspect of Holocaust history [and]…raises critical questions about the Nazi campaign that helped disrupt the centuries-old accommodation between Jewish communities and their Muslim hosts in the Middle East." –Judith Miller, New York Sun

"[Satloff's] engrossing and deeply personal study shows how Euopeans brought the Holocaust to the Sahara…A thoughtful work showing that hatred--and compassion-–can flourish anywhere."--Kirkus Reviews

"Satloff's compelling book details the roles Arabs played in assisting or resisting the Third Reich, Italian Fascism and the Vichy government, and the expansion of the Final Solution into their countries…this is important material, and Satloff's work is groundbreaking for Jewish, Middle Eastern and Holocaust studies."--Publishers Weekly

"this account is bound to be controversial." --Booklist

"Only when we talk openly about the commonalities and differences of our faiths can we begin to address tensions and misunderstandings. Rob Satloff's book is a starting point toward a better understanding, and a bridge to the future. Many times Muslims say that they cannot be anti-Semitic because they are themselves Semitic. Let the incredible research Rob Satloff has poured into his book be seen as a sign of that commonality."--Gregg Rickman, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism

"Robert Satloff's new book…is an essential addition to our understanding of this darkest period of the 20th Century…Perhaps this book can help launch a new kind of dialogue between Arabs and Jews. If nothing else, ‘Among the Righteous' does an important service in documenting both the good and the evil committed by Arabs towards their Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust." -- Abraham Foxman, a Holocaust survivor and National Director of the ADL