Word: holocaust
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Possessed, Dostoyevsky offers a characteristic irony: "I have a plan-to go mad." That remark is a motto of one of his literary heirs, Elie Wiesel. A survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel has long been recognized as a visionary, reading symbols in the charred remains of the Holocaust. But it is Wiesel the artist who commands the attention of Theologian-Critic Robert McAfee Brown. In Messenger to All Humanity, Brown provides the best introduction to the score of works that have made Wiesel a leading candidate for the Nobel Prize...
...more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises to the Jewish people." If Wiesel's literary career had ended with Night, he would still have earned an international reputation as a founder of Holocaust literature. Once the novel was published, others dared to speak out: Nelly Sachs' laments were carried in O the Chimneys; André Schwarz-Bart chronicled The Last of the Just; Jerzy Kosinski described The Painted Bird. Wiesel himself was set free; his other books rushed into print: Dawn, The Accident, The Town...
...idea of such a place has caused a certain subdued muttering. The muttering grants the enormity of the Holocaust, but it suggests: Why should the U.S. Government set aside land and buildings to commemorate a tragedy that occurred on another continent, a horror in which Americans had no part either as victims or persecutors? Americans have their own native horrors. Why not a memorial museum to black slavery? Why not a memorial to the American Indian culture? The American conscience could be engaged much closer to home than Auschwitz...
...alumnus of Northwestern University who has been trying to get his alma mater to host a debate on the reality of the Holocaust struck out again this month...
Curry sought a debate matching electrical engineering Prof. Arthur Butz, author of "The Hoax of the 20th Century," with some-one who disagrees with his theory that the Holocaust didn't happen...