Nobody can know them all, certainly not Rudy Kurniawan, who never set eyes on Burgundy. In the end, it was his imprecise knowledge of a particular domaine's history that tripped him up. It happened amid extreme merriment, one spring evening, in New York. The mistakes that he made, minuscule and highly arcane, upended his life. Also upended would be the practices and pleasures of seekers after rare old wine.
Twenty years ago, in Avenue of the Righteous, the original edition of this book, Peter Hellman wrote one of the first accounts of the men and women who succeeded in saving Jews from the Nazis. These courageous few have been recognized as the 'Righteous of Nations' by Israel, with trees planted in their honor. This updated edition includes the stories of five of the Righteous, tales of high drama, heartbreak, and hope that mark the return of a significant contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.