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 (...)
January 13, 2006
Books
Saving the Forsaken
Saving the ForsakenPearl M. Oliner
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