One day in 2005, the daughter of French Jewish artist Linda Ellia brought home a book that had turned up in a friend's house, a new French translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Ellia held the heavy, monstrous book in her hands and the shock of it, the emotions tearing through her brought up some big questions. What now? What to do with the "Nazi Bible"? "What should we do with such a book?" Simone Veil, Auschwitz survivor, former French Minister of Health and 16th President of the European Parliament, asked about Mein Kampf. "Ban it? Some would still pass it around on the sly. Forget it? It would be an insult to the millions who died because of it. Burn it? It would be resorting to the methods used by the Nazis …" Linda Ellia began answering these questions by cutting out pages, marking and overwriting and erasing them with paint. After a few dozen pages taken in hand in this way she was struck by the thought: how about others? How about inviting others to engage with and deconstruct/ reconstruct the rest of the 600 pages? Read more about this amazing book exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco: "Notre Combat" (Our Struggle) -- 450 pages of Hitler's Mein Kampf deconstructed and reconstructed by artists and gathered into a new book. http://www.scene4.com/0510/renatestendhal0510.html