Edwin Black on East Coast Tour of new book ‘The Farhud’

Renowned writer and investigator Edwin Black goes on the East Coast leg of a multi-city tour offering a sneak-preview of his newest work, The Farhud, which traces Nazi/Muslim collaboration in combatting the Allies during WWII and the Holocaust.

By Martin Barillas
Friday, October 15, 2010

Edwin Black

Renowned investigative writer and journalist, Edwin Black, the author of numerous books and investigations including War Against the Weak, is on the East Coast leg of a his multi-city book tour to launch his latest work: The Farhud: The Roots of The Arab-Nazi Alliance During the Holocaust, which promises to rock the world with its account of the collaboration of Nazis and Muslim leadership to exterminate Jews long before the foundation of the modern state of Israel. The book is due to hit store shelves at the end of October.

Black will speak in the Washington DC area at 11:30 AM Sunday October 17, 2010 at the Congregation Tikvat Israel at 2200 Baltimore Road, Rockville MD. Sponsored by the Greater Washington Area Chapter of Hadassah and Tikvat Israel, Black promises to elaborate on a series of lectures and film showings already held in Minnesota, Ohio, and North Carolina in recent days.

Farhud—a word that in Arabic signifies “violent dispossession,” describes an event in World War II Iraq that culminated years of machinations involving Adolf Hitler and Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem and leader of the region’s Muslims.

It was on June 1, 1941 that Arab mobs swept through the streets of Baghdad raping, burning, and killing in what Black describes as a “burning madhouse.” Based on research conducted in libraries and archives around the world and in consultation with renowned experts, The Farhud: The Roots of Arab-Nazi Alliance During the Holocaust offers insights into the geopolitical and genocidal underpinnings of conflicts in the Mideast and much of the world’s terrorism today.

A diverse coalition of organizations and institutions are promoting Black’s tour. These include: Sabes Jewish Community Center; Midwest Jewish Studies Association and the Program in Judaic Studies and the Stella and Dr. Herman J. Sampliner Endowment Fund of the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University; Scholars for Peace in the Middle East; State of California Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance; University of Minnesota; State of California Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance; Beth Israel-The West Temple; Siegal College of Judaic Studies; Temple B’nai Abraham and Agudath B’nai Israel; Blynn Holocaust Collection; The Greensboro Jewish Federation; the Binghamton Social Justice Fund, History Network News; Institute for Religion and Public Policy; Jewish Virtual Library; The Auto Channel; and Spero Forum.

For information on the tour go to the Edwin Black Multi-Book Tour Page: www.edwinblack.com/index.php?page=10190

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