Sales and Market Bullets A FORREST GUMP LIFE: Saved by her mother's last-minute decision that spared her from the Holocaust, Malka's life has been defined by survival, reinvention, and a passion for art. Her life is a kaleidoscope of 20th-century history: from standing on Tel Aviv rooftops watching bombs fall, to performing in remote towns across Canada, to hosting a weekly CBC show and creating award-winning documentaries, to being a part of the Canadian Talent Library's number one recording of all time, to forging friendships with some of the biggest names of 20th century music, to turning down the first Vegas supper-club residency. CANADIAN CULTURE OF THE '60s and '70s: Malka & Joso played the Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia, Ontario, in 1963, on a bill with Ian & Sylvia, the Travellers, and a duo called the Two Tones that included a young Gordon Lightfoot. Malka forged friendships with Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. She also established a long-term friendship with Joni Mitchell that continues to this day. We get an inside look at these Canadian icons through the eyes of a friend, journalist, and fellow artist. THE CANADIAN SONNY & CHER: Singing songs in Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Creole French, Macedonian, and Russian, Malka & Joso reflected immigrants' experience of Canada. During the mid-1960s, the folk duo sold out coffeehouses, folk festivals, and concert halls, had their own weekly CBC program, and outsold many of their label's (Capitol Records) English-language albums.

In 1966, they played Carnegie Hall, New York, and in 1967 performed for Princess Margaret at Canada's Centennial celebrations in the U.K. By elevating foreign languages, Malka & Joso changed the perception of immigrants in Canada. A JOHNNY CARSON FAVORITE: Before they split in 1967, Malka & Joso were favorites of The Tonight Show 's Johnny Carson, who had them on his program four times. A REMARKABLE CAREER: After her music career ended, Malka remade herself as a journalist. Her multi-part documentary, A Bite of the Big Apple , won an ACTRA Award in 1977. She produced documentaries such as The Bedouins (a project that led to her learning their language and living amongst them for many months), My Jerusalem , and The Holocaust , and she hosted a weekly CBC Radio program called Songs of Our People . She also created a series of radio documentaries profiling musicians such as Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

A LIBERAL ZIONIST: A Zionist raised on the dream of a Jewish homeland, she now protests regularly against the current Israeli government. The book has some commentary on Israel during its founding days (her childhood) and how that has impacted her life, but there is no modern commentary on the Israel-Palestine war.