Celebrating Elie Wiesel: stories, essays, reflections

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.