At first, I was not interested so much in the Hamito-Semitic family and Indo-European. However, I was deeply impressed on the field of Semitic and Indo-European etymology because of this book. I have also Hermann Mueller's "Vergleichendes indogermanisch-semitisches Woerterbuch" published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (This one is available in amazon.de, Germany). Hermann Mueller's is really valuable one. But it is just a dictionary.

However, Mr. Saul Levin's works are especially interesting. Being the Distinguished Professor of Ancient Languages, State University of New York, he made such great achievements in Semitic and Indo-European Etymology.

This Book has more than 514 pages, including major contents, bibliographical references, Index of Scholars,Index of Languages, Index of Grammatical or Linguistic Terms, especially well arranged Linguistc Forms, and so forth.

The major contents consist of the etymology of Non-verbal Nouns(Chapter I),Verbal Roots (Chapter II), Pronouns (Chapter III), Prepositions (Chapter IV), and Numerals(Chapter V). The original words and phrases were introduced in the original letters, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Sanskrit, Cyril,etc. with parallel Roman transliteration.

I would strongly like to recommend this book for those who are interested in Semitic and Indo-European linguistics as well as in the Nostratic hypothesis.

The Diary of Gonda Redlich is an enlightening tale of life and death within Theresienstadt, the "resort" or "paradise" concentration camp of the Jewish Holocaust. Throughout the course of the diary, we see Theresienstadt from the first hand experiences of Gonda, the head of children's affairs and the transports. We learn of all of the great cultural activities of Theresienstadt, while we learn of the transports east to Auschwitz, the greatest death camp of all. The first hand experiences and writings of Gonda provide envaluable information to any serious historian of the Jewish Holocaust. Can any person read this book? Must you be a historian? No, I believe that this book can be read by anybody. It is a timeless tale of life (with the birth of Gonda's son and the activities in Theresienstadt) and death (Gonda eventually was sent to die in Auschwitz) in the final solution. It is first hand proof for the world of the horrors and sometimes joys in the Jewish Holocaust.