Word: holocaust
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...Never Full is steeped in memory--the memories of one person, of course, but also the memories of all Holocaust survivors, of the Jewish people and of the world. Wiesel asks again and again how we, as individuals, as cultures and as a global community, can and should approach the task of remembrance. To forget the Holocaust would be unconscionable, but to communicate it is impossible. Wiesel searches for a balance between the silence required to show respect for the dead and the silence that will cause the dead to die again through forgetfulness...
Still, Wiesel argues that no history can replace the living memories of the Holocaust survivors; it can only provide a poor approximation. Yet, And the Sea is Never Full reads more like a history than like a set of thoughts. It relies on analysis, the ordering of events, cause and effect. Wiesel worries about saying too much, and though he is powerful and compelling, he is a distant writer. His books are not emotionally intimate. This is not a fault. But we need the intimate accounts too--the people who will go further and tell us more, who will provide...
Wiesel has worked on behalf of Holocaust survivors and on the behalf of victims of human rights abuses around the world. He has defended Israel and the Jewish people. He has denounced fanaticism and intolerance. He has not always succeeded in changing the views of others, but he has always tried. Wiesel's thoughts reflect the sadness of a life spent fighting an adversary that by all logic should never have existed and yet continues to roam the earth undefeated. His words are moving and inspiring, hopeful...
...Dutton, 262 pages, $23.95) - an extraordinarily eloquent work that places the reparations discussion in the larger historical framework of 246 years of slavery and another hundred years of Jim Crow and racial discrimination. Robinson, president of TransAfrica (which did much to fight apartheid, among other battles), declares: "...the black holocaust is far and away the most heinous human rights crime visited upon any group of people in the world over the last five hundred years." Elie Wiesel has warned against comparing atrocities - but Robinson makes a persuasive case...
...article "The Necessary Evil?," theologian Martin Marty said, "Five hundred years from now, it won't be Hitler we remember" [PERSON OF THE CENTURY, Dec. 31]. I took great offense at that statement. I say we forget Hitler at our own peril. He didn't carry out the Holocaust alone. He was aided by people in Germany, Poland, Hungary, France and other countries. Hitler showed how thin is the veneer of civilization. ANTHONY M. D'AGOSTINO Memphis, Tenn...