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Resisters by Wolf Gruner

Resisters by Wolf Gruner

How Ordinary Jews Fought Persecution in Hitler’s Germany A highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional portrayal of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust Drawing on twelve...

Mai­monides: Faith in Reason by Alber­to Manguel

Mai­monides: Faith in Reason by Alber­to Manguel

An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world’s foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138–1204), was born in...