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Celebrating Elie Wiesel : stories, essays, reflections

Title
Celebrating Elie Wiesel : stories, essays, reflections / edited by Alan Rosen.
Publication
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016.
  • Rosen, Alan Charles.
Description
xxvi, 344 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence
  • Human rights
Note
  • Festschrift.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
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 Sölle -- 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 Aché: 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 / Václav Havel -- Afterword / Cynthia Ozick.
Call Number
*PXK 99-610
ISBN
0268008353 (alk. paper)
LCCN
98030612
OCLC
39655107
Title
Celebrating Elie Wiesel : stories, essays, reflections / edited by Alan Rosen.
Imprint
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1998.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016.
Rosen, Alan Charles.
Research Call Number
*PXK 99-610
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