Physical Description
xxvi, 344 p. ; 24 cm
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.
Other Authors/Editors
Wiesel, Elie,
Rosen, Alan (Alan Charles)
ISBN
0268008353
Notes
Festschrift.
Includes bibliographical references.
