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"The new book by Robert Satloff, the director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, enjoyed a moment of unexpected relevance this week. Before it even reached the bookstores - the book, which deals with what befell North African Jewry during the Holocaust, is scheduled for publication in about a month - the author was asked to comment urgently on the history of the Lumbrosos, a Tunisian family, in the period of the Nazi occupation. It turns out, incredibly, that one of the family's descendants is currently a United States senator. And not only that, but in another month and a half he will be up for reelection. And not only that, but he is getting increasingly entangled because of slips of the tongue and scandals. And not only that, but until not so long ago he was considered a potential Republican presidential candidate, whereas now it is uncertain whether he will even survive in the Senate. And on top of all that, he has just learned - as a politician umbilically connected to his state's Christian, conservative establishment - that he is the son of a Jewish mother. From the Lumbroso family.
"Thanks to information from the Lumbroso group," writes Jacques Sabille, no fewer than 17 German transport planes were destroyed. Sabille wrote the authoritative 1954 book "The Jews of Tunisia Under Vichy and the Occupation," which Satloff quotes. Sylvain Lumbroso, who established the group of Tunisian Jewish insurgents, received a medal for his action. "
www.washingtoninstitute.org  Laurent Laloup le lundi 22 octobre 2007 Contribution au livre ouvert de Silvain Daniel Lumbroso | |
