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by Michael Bar-Zohar, מיכאל בר-זהר

276 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

Professor Michael Bar-Zohar was a member of Knesset (Labour) and wrote the official biography of David Ben Gurion. He has written thirty non-fiction books, and has been translated into sixteen languages, winning many international prizes. He is currently working on a biography of Shimon Peres.

Has written under the pseudonym Michael Barak.

Reviews

[Mirel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. Someone recommended this book before a recent trip to Bulgaria. The book recounts the history of how the Bulgarians saved their Jewish population during the Holocaust. I had never heard this part of history before, and was unaware of the fact that Bulgarian Jewry had been spared being sent to the camps and that it had been thanks to the machinations of the king and the intervention of the Church, many politicians and the local populace. Amazing, but also heart wrenching as I thought of how little had been done for Jews in other countries.