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Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2014. 334pp. Photos. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hardcover. New/New.
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- Title The Ambiguity of Virtue
- Author Bernard Wasserstein
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
- Date 2014-03-31
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780674281387 / 0674281381
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.68 x 5.46 x 1.1 in (22.05 x 13.87 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Holocaust
- Library of Congress subjects Jews, German - Netherlands - Amsterdam, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Netherlands
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013036032
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/2014, Page 0
- New York Times Book Review, 06/08/2014, Page 38
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Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 334 pages, b&w photos. In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German-occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from Hitler's Europe of thousands of German and Dutch Jews. Was this middle-aged Jewish woman, burdened with such a terrible responsibility, merely a pawn of the Nazis, or was her journey a genuine opportunity to save large numbers of Jews from the gas chambers? In such impossible circumstances, what is just action, and what is complicity? A moving account of courage and of all-too-human failings in the face of extraordinary moral challenges, The Ambiguity of Virtue tells the story of Van Tijn's work on behalf of her fellow Jews as the avenues that might save them were closed off. Between 1933 and 1940 Van Tijn helped organize Jewish emigration from Germany. After the…
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