Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Elie Wiesel is a consummate storyteller, commentator on classic Jewish texts, human rights activist, university professor, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Celebrating Elie Wiesel presents stories, essays, and reflections that celebrate his extraordinary literary, moral, religious, and human rights contributions.
Table of Contents
Elie Wiesel: a biblical life / Alan M. Dershowitz -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- As an apple of the eye / Aaron Appelfeld -- What I always knew / Ariel Dorfman -- From Mt. Sinai to the Holocaust: Primo Levi and the crisis of science in The periodic table / Nancy Harrowitz -- The specter of eloquence: reading the survivor's voice / Alan Rosen -- Kafka and Kundera: two voices from Prague / Maurice Friedman -- Translation and violence: legacies of Benjamin / Jeffrey Mehlman -- Interpreting catastrophe: insights from the Halachic literature on the Prague fire of 1689 / Joseph A. Polak -- Rabbi Yose's laundry: the history of a flagrant voice and the history of an idea / Hillel Levine -- Coming of age in Kozienice: Malkah Shapiro's Memoir of youth in the sacred space of a Hasidic Zaddik / Nehemia Polen -- Helping others to be free: Elie Wiesel and talk about religion in public / John K. Roth -- The languages of mysticism: negation, paradox, and silence / Dorothee Sèolle -- From Thebes to Auschwitz: moral responsibility in Sophocles and Wiesel / John Silber -- Towards an ethics of remembrance after the Shoah / Reinhold Boschki -- Blaming the victim: can we learn to stop? Cancer as the battleground / Marguerite S. Lederberg -- The Achâe: a re-evaluation / Steven T. Katz -- Is democracy for everybody? A Swedish perspective / Per Ahlmark -- The Holocaust, Nuremberg, and human rights: Elie Wisel and the struggle against injustice in our time / Irwin Cotler -- "Who is a Jew": a tale of fathers and daughters / Pnina Lahav -- Literacy, the Internet, and the global village / Joshua Lederberg -- The Holocaust experience as a state of mind / Shlomo Breznitz -- In Memory of our Holocaust victims / Vâaclav Havel -- Afterword / Cynthia Ozick.