Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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)