Anguished Hope: Holocaust Scholars Edited by: Leonard Grob and John K. Roth […] The thirteen contributors to this volume - all scholars of the Holocaust - are at one in the endeavor to combat silence with a moral response to the human tragedy that is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Although no comparison is intended between the systematic destruction of European Jewry during the Holocaust and the ongoing strife in the Middle East, the essayists in this volume try to remain faithful to Weisel's assertion that "Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe." The contributors to Anguished Hope thus refuse to avert their eyes from the often lethal acts of hostility carried out on a daily basis in that region of the world. They choose to be bystanders in the face of a seemingly intractable conflict, one that has been termed nothing short of a new Hundred Years' War. While addressing the current suffering of both Palestinians and Israelis, each contributor endeavors to attend to the silent screams of the victims of the Holocaust: each feels the heavy weight of speaking before the faces of the murdered one. Aspiring to honor the memory of the Holocaust's six million dead, each contributor addresses the dilemmas and prospects that produce "anguished hope" for a just resolution of the struggle in the Middle East. Never before, to our knowledge, has a group of Holocaust scholars writing as such collaborated on a volume dedicated solely to the Middle East conflict. The contributors to this book are convinced that those who possess expertise in Holocaust studies have a distinctive responsibility to address the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. What is the source of this conviction? [...]