Do Unto Others

"In Do Unto Others, Holocaust survivor and sociologist Samuel Oliner explores what gives an individual a sense of social responsibility, what leads to the development of care and compassion, and what it means to put the welfare of others ahead of one's own. Having been saved himself from the Nazis at age 12 as the result of one non-Jewish family's altruism, Oliner has made a lifelong study of the nature of altruism. Weaving together moving personal testimony and years of observation, Oliner makes sense of the factors that elicit altruistic behavior - exceptional acts by ordinary people in ordinary times."--BOOK JACKET.

First sentence: In June 1942 my family, including my grandparents, was ordered by the Nazis to move to the ghetto in the small town of Bobowa, situated near the Slovak border in southern Poland.

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

Westview Press

Editions

1

Pages

288

ISBN

9780813339849

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