Evil and Exile: Revised Edition

✍ Scribed by Elie Wiesel, Jon Rothschild, Michael de Saint-Cheron, Jody Gladding

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A six-day series of interviews between Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel and French journalist Michaël de Saint Cheron, Evil and Exile probes some of the most crucial and pressing issues facing humankind today. Having survived the unspeakable evil of the Holocaust, Wiesel remained silent for ten years before dedicating his life to the memory of this tragedy, witnessing tirelessly to remind an often indifferent world of its potential for self-destruction. Wiesel offers wise counsel in this volume concerning evil and suffering, life and death, chance and circumstance. Moreover, the dialogue evokes candid and often surprising responses by Wiesel on the Palestinian problem, Judeo-Christian relations, recent changes in the Soviet Union as well as insights into writers such as Kafka, Malraux, Mauriac, and Unamuno.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Prologue
First Day
Evil
Responsibility and Meaning
Evil and Love
Second Day
The Hurban
Judea-Christian Relations
Some Writers Deal with Evil
Third Day
The Song of Exile
Song
Fourth Day
Death, Life
Shma Israel
Fifth Day
From Anti-Semitism to Anti-Zionism
Israel and Elie Wiesel's Sadness
Sixth Day
Mystery and the Ineffable
Jewish Thought and Commentaries
On Silence
Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1 988
Ten Years After
Seventh Day
Questions Today
Providence and Deliverance
Eighth Day
The Power to Change
Peace and Mysticism