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Israel and Macedonia is about the long and many historical ties between
Israel and Macedonia and the Jews and Macedonians. These include Alexander
the Great, Ptolemy's Macedonian Kingdom in Egypt, Christianity, the
Macedonian Orthodox Church, and the Jews in Macedonia. The book, in
both English and Macedonian, is 
Dokumenti
za Makedonskoto Natsionalno Dvizhenje vo Diasporata (OKM - DOOM - NOFM)
- Volumes 1 and 2 by Mile Ilievski are records of the work of these
organizations to free and unite Macedonia. The Liberation Committee
of Macedonia (OKM) was founded in 1962 in Sweden, and grew to become
the Movement for Liberation and Unification of Macedonia (DOOM). At
one stage the leader of DOOM, Dragan Bogdanovski, was kidnapped by the
UDBA, and the newspaper published by DOOM, Macedonian Nation, was transferred
to Australia. Eventually DOOM was renamed the People's Liberation Front
of Macedonia (NOFM). Its goal was the liberation and unification of
the divided Macedonian people and their homeland Macedonia, and the
creation of a democratic Macedonian state that would be a homeland for
all Macedonians and members of national minorities. The great majority
of the documents are letters between the members and there are also
some newspaper articles. Volume 1 is 
Macedonia
Rises - The Macedonian National Movement in the Pirin Part of Macedonia
by Atanas Kiryakov and Aleksandar Donski is based on material from the
archive of the Macedonian human rights activist Atanas Kiryakov. Mr
Kiryakov is from Blagoevgrad in Bulgaria. The book contains a wide variety
of documents including testimonies, letters, photographs, articles,
legal decisions, and a clear outline of the rights requested and demanded
by the Macedonians. In the census of 1946 when Macedonians were allowed
to openly declare their ethnicity, around 70 per cent of the population
of Pirin Macedonia declared themselves as Macedonians. The material
clearly shows that the Macedonians in Bulgaria still do not consider
themselves as Bulgarians and continue to work for their rights including
self-identification and cultural expression. The book was published
by the Macedonian Literary Association "Grigor Prlichev" in Sydney.
The English version is 
The
Bells Will Ring Tomorrow - Tales of Village Life in Aegean Macedonia
is a collection of short stories, vignettes and folk tales by Alex K
Gigeroff. The stories are rooted in the Macedonian ethnic experience,
and are based on peasant life in small Macedonian villages in Aegean
Macedonia (Northern Greece) in the last century. The book shows the
personal, social and cultural survival struggles of non-literate peasants
against the assaults of wars, politics, religious and literate forces.
The stories share and transmit the common problems, the understanding
and the awareness of one generation to the next, particularly through
the relationships shared by grandfather and grandchild. They also preserve
a vanished way of life. The book is published by Virginia Evans and
is available from VAE Enterprises by emailing 
Goce
Delchev's first courier was Andon Stojanov Toshev, also known as Doncho
Shtipjancheto. A book about Mr Toshev based on testimonies of his daughter,
Elena Tosheva Rashenova, covers the major periods of his life, his wife
and his wider family. Andon grew up and lived in Ottoman Macedonia.
As Goce Delchev's first courier, he helped connect the revolutionary
committees on the line Vinica, Stip, Kocani as well as maintain the
Stip, Veles, Prilep, Bitola line. In that way the revolutionaries learned
regularly and on time what the other committees were doing. The results
of the regular post office saw the connections expanded to Sveti Nikole,
Kumanovo, Vinica, Pehchevo, Radovish, Strumica, and through Kratovo
and Palanka to the other side of the border to Kyustendil. Each week
the revolutionaries received letters, newspapers, and political literature.
But in the sacks of rice, Done carried cartridges, bombs and, in the
saddles, rifles in their parts. For a time Andon was imprisoned by the
Turks and then fled to Bulgaria. The book, Andon Stojanov Toshev (Doncho
Shtipjancheto) Prviot Kurir na Gotse Delchev Spored Svedoshtvata na
Elena Tosheva Rashenova, is 
On
the Road of No Return by Petre Nakovski is a novel about the Greek Civil
War and its thousands of Macedonian refugees, particularly those that
it scattered around Eastern Europe and Poland. The novel starts with
a realistic depiction of the dangerous conditions leading up to the
"bloody showdown" on Mount Vicho, the bombing raids, and the threatening
propaganda if Macedonians did not leave Greece. This is a novel about
war and its many physical, family and emotional pains that last a lifetime.
Importantly, it is told by a Macedonian from a Macedonian perspective.
The novel was translated by Risto Stefov. The English version is 
The
novel, A Perfect Stone, is about an elderly man who cleans out a box
and finds something which triggers the memories of a childhood he has
hidden from his family and himself. When he has a stroke he begins to
speak in another language. Suppressed memories surface and he finally
confronts what happened when, as a ten-year-old, he was forced at gunpoint
to leave his family and trek barefoot through the mountains to escape
the Greek Civil War in 1948. Melbourne author Sylvia Karakaltsas dedicated
the book "For every child who was, and is, a refugee seeking the right
to a better life." She also thanked her "extended family for sharing
their experiences of the Greek Civil War and what it was like being
a Macedonian living in Northern Greece. The book is available from amazon.com,
The
Sorrow of Miles Franklin beneath Mount Kajmakcalan by Ivan Capovski
has been translated from the Macedonian by Paul Filev. The publisher
says "In the latter years of World War I, renowned Australian writer
Miles Franklin travels to the Macedonian Front, joining as a nurse at
the Scottish Women's Hospital near Mt Kajmakcalan. Soldiers from many
nations surge across a Macedonia that has been partitioned, absorbed
by its neighbours. Its people struggle to survive in the face of staggering
losses and being forcibly conscripted into foreign armies fighting on
their soil. Amidst it all, Miles captures the names and hopes of the
oppressed, recording their travails, their quiet triumphs, and the turmoil
of a nation affected by events beyond its control. This is fictionalised
account of a short period from Miles Franklin's life is based on her
own writing and contemporaneous documents, supported by extensive additions
from local history and culture." The book is available from numerous
online book stores including amazon.com, 
The
book Neunishtlivi Koreni (Indestructible Roots) by Mitre Kajcevski-Micho
has been reprinted by the Macedonian Dawn Association and the Bitola
Aegean Association. The book is about the villages, the Macedonian people
and their lives in the southern Prespa region of Macedonia, Aegean Macedonia
and Mala Prespa. Neunishtlivi Koreni was published in 1998 year and
covers the history, local vocabulary, legends and statements of old
Prespa from 33 villages. The book is a symbolic 300 denars plus postage,
and the funds will be donated towards installing two memorial plates
to thank the villagers from Dolno Dupeni, Ljubojno and Brajcino for
taking care of refugee children and wounded soldiers of the Democratic
Army of the Civil War 1944-1949 in South Prespa. The book can be ordered
A
reminder that Canadian Macedonian Books has a great selection of Macedonian
books in English from around the world. These include non-fiction, fiction,
children's and cook books. Canadian Macedonian Books is run by Virginia
Evans, a former co-president of the Canadian Macedonian Historical Society
and founder of the Macedonian Film Festival in Toronto. Canadian Macedonian
Books is
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