Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Yehuda Bauer
Born: April 6, 1926 (age 98)
Bio: Yehuda Bauer is an Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Known for:
- A History of the Holocaust (1982)
- Rethinking the Holocaust (2001)
- Jews for sale? (1994)
- Jewish reactions to the Holocaust (1989)
- The Jewish emergence from powerlessness (1979)