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Emmanuel Levinas

1906 CE – 1995 CE · 89 years

The Lithuanian Jewish philosopher who survived five years in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, lost his entire family to the Holocaust, and rebuilt ethics from the ground up — told in his own words.

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