This is the story of a Holocaust rescuer, Pierre Toureille, a French Protestant pastor whose efforts resulted in the rescue of hundreds of refugees, most of them Jewish. Inspired by his Huguenot heritage, Pastor Toureille participated in international Protestant church efforts to combat Nazism during the 1930s and headed a major refugee aid organization in Vichy France during World War II. After the war, Pastor Toureille was honored by the Jewish organization Yad Vashem as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations."    In telling Toureille’s story, Tela Zasloff also depicts the wide-ranging network of Protestant pastors and lay people in southern French villages who participated in an aggressive rescue effort. She delves into their motivations, including their heritage as members of a religious minority. Toureille’s rescue work under the Vichy regime, partly official and then increasingly clandestine as the war progrressed. was a crucial part of the French non-violent "spiritual resistance" against Nazism.

A Rescuer’s Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France

Zasloff, Tela

Religion & Spirituality

University of Wisconsin Press

In telling Pierre-Charles Toureille’s story, Tela Zasloff also describes the wide-ranging network of Protestant pastors and lay people in southern French villages who participated in an aggressive rescue effort. She delves into their motivations, including their Huguenot heritage as members of a religious minority.

A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France

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This book explores what motivates eye doctors to heal among the world's poor, and why this kind of service strikes us so deeply. It combines the topics of medicine, public health, and medical ethics across cultures, including Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, India, China, Pakistan, and the United States. The first chapter, 'Charity, an extended definition' is a discussion of contemporary and traditional notions of charity in the religious and cultural settings where the doctors are serving. 'Caring and curing: The physician in the community' explores how medicine has traditionally served a community and the problems Western, particularly American doctors perceive in maintaining that tradition. 'The eye' is a tribute to the marvel and complexity of the eye, including its physiological, clinical, and metaphorical aspects. The 'Exempla' section is the bulk of the book, containing personal stories of ophthalmologists in eight countries who are treating the poor, medical data on each country, descriptions of the physical and cultural settings that color their work, and the author's own reactions. There is a wide range of physicians here--missionaries, those in private practice including some from privileged backgrounds, survivors of the Cultural Revolution in China, a distinguished Hindu family in India. This book offers excellent reading for a variety of medical school classes, public health programs, courses in international medicine and courses in medical ethics. Restoring Vision will also appeal to physicians in private practice and trainees for foreign service.

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University Press of America

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A Rescuer’s Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France

A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France

Saigon Dreaming: Recollections of Indochina Days

Restoring Vision: An Ethical Perspective on Doctors Curing Blindness Around the World

Restoring Vision: An Ethical Perspective on Doctors Curing Blindness Around the World