January 13, 2006

Books

Saving the Forsaken

Saving the ForsakenPearl M. Oliner

Ernest Rubinstein

If this book had carried an epigraph, it might have been “A little religion is a dangerous thing.” For one of the striking conclusions of this sociological study of altruistic behavior among non-Jewish Europeans toward Jews during the Holocaust is that the mildly religious, not the very religious or the adamantly irreligious, were least likely to show it. The auth (...)


 

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