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Saving One's Own
Mordecai Paldiel
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Description for Saving One's Own
Hardcover. "Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book"--Title page verso. Num Pages: 636 pages, 30 images, index. BIC Classification: JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1080.
In this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust. In so doing he puts to rest the widely held belief that all Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe wore blinders and allowed themselves to be led like “lambs to the slaughter.” Paldiel documents how brave Jewish men and women saved thousands of their fellow Jews through efforts unprecedented in Jewish history.
Encyclopedic in scope and organized by country, Saving One’s Own tells the stories of hundreds of Jewish activists ... Read more
In this remarkable, historically significant book, Mordecai Paldiel recounts in vivid detail the many ways in which, at great risk to their own lives, Jews rescued other Jews during the Holocaust. In so doing he puts to rest the widely held belief that all Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe wore blinders and allowed themselves to be led like “lambs to the slaughter.” Paldiel documents how brave Jewish men and women saved thousands of their fellow Jews through efforts unprecedented in Jewish history.
Encyclopedic in scope and organized by country, Saving One’s Own tells the stories of hundreds of Jewish activists ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Jewish Publication Society United States
Number of pages
636
Condition
New
Number of Pages
636
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, United States
ISBN
9780827612617
SKU
V9780827612617
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About Mordecai Paldiel
Mordecai Paldiel is a professor of history at Yeshiva University–Stern College and Touro College and is a consultant to the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He is the former longtime director of the Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem and was himself rescued from the Holocaust by a “Righteous Gentile.” Paldiel is the author of eight books, including Sheltering ... Read more
Reviews for Saving One's Own
"Paldiel's book includes remarkable stories of remarkable people."—Tammy Mark, Jewish Link of New Jersey “The first of its kind . . . Saving One’s Own is very important because it illustrates the resilience of people in Nazi-occupied Europe and dispels the myth of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust. Thoroughly researched, exciting, and engaging.”—Samuel P. Oliner, author of The Altruistic Personality ... Read more