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Conversations with Elie Wiesel / Elie Wiesel and Richard D. Heffner ; edited by Thomas J. Vinciguerra.
Van Pelt Library PQ2683.I32 Z4618 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016--Interviews.
- Wiesel, Elie.
- Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016.
- Authors, French--20th century--Interviews.
- Authors, French.
- Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.
- Authors, American.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 175 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, [2001]
- Summary:
- A far-ranging dialogue with Elie Wiesel touches on the major issues of our time and on life's timeless questions.
- Contents:
- 1 Am I My Brother's Keeper? 3
- 2 The Intellectual in Public Life 17
- 3 On Being Politically Correct 29
- 4 The State: Its Proper Role in Our Lives 40
- 5 Religion, Politics,... and Tolerance 50
- 6 Nationalism and Upheaval 67
- 7 The Anatomy of Hate 90
- 8 Capital Punishment: An Eye for an Eye? 104
- 9 Taking Life: Can It Be an Act of Compassion and Mercy? 120
- 10 Making Ourselves Over: In Whose Image? 131
- 11 The Mystic Chords of Memory 144.
- ISBN:
- 0805241922
- OCLC:
- 46792698
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