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Richard L. Rubenstein
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “author and co-author of several books”. Today it says “rabbi”.
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Richard Rubenstein is the author and co-author of several books. Amongst them: After Auschwitz (1966), The Cunning of History (1975), The Age of Triage (1983), and Approaches to Auschwitz (1986).1
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Then
author and co-author of several books
Now
rabbi
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