Quote of the day
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Yehuda Bauer
Born: April 6, 1926
Died: October 18, 2024 (aged 98)
Bio: Yehuda Bauer was an Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He was 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)