They Made Their Souls Anew: Ils Ont Refait Leur ÂmeState University of New York Press, 2012 M02 1 - 179 pages This is an original, philosophical discussion in which André Neher relates the lives of prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jews to traditional Jewish thought on issues of assimilation, the Holocaust, and liberal intellectualism. |
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