Quote of the day
Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given!
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.
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)