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The Ambiguity of Virtue

Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews

Bernard Wasserstein

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674281387

Publication Date: 03/31/2014

352 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

28 halftones, 2 maps

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Bernard Wasserstein is Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Chicago.

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Read an excerpt from The Ambiguity of Virtue in Tablet Magazine
Listen to an interview with Bernard Wasserstein on ABC Radio National’s Religion and Ethics Report
At the St. Louis Jewish Light site, read an interview with Wasserstein about his study of Gertrude van Tijn

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