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Conversations with Elie Wiesel Book

Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel Prize Winner, Holocaust survivor, and author of more than 40 books, has something to say about almost everything. Conversations with Elie Wiesel, containing highlights from more than 20 television interviews with journalist Richard D. Heffner, gathers some of Wiesel's best thoughts on subjects such as "The Intellectual in Public Life," "On Being Politically Correct" "Religion, Politics... and Tolerance." The book has a few broad, unifying themes--most notably the dynamics of individual and community responsibility, and the proper role of the state in our lives. But Conversations contains no sustained arguments. It is, instead, the record of a mind in action--the passionate thoughts of a person whose confidence in the significance of his own life is the ground of his generosity towards others: I have the feeling, honestly, that my life is an offering. I could have died every minute between '44 and '45. So once I have received this gift, I must justify it. And the only way to justify life is by affirming the right to life of anyone who needs such affirmation. --Michael Joseph GrossRead More

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  • Product Description

    Conversations with Elie Wiesel is a far-ranging dialogue with the Nobel Peace Prize-winner on the major issues of our time and on lifeâ??s timeless questions.

    In open and lively responses to the probing questions and provocative comments of Richard D. Heffnerâ??American historian, noted public television moderatorproducer, and Rutgers University professorâ??Elie Wiesel covers fascinating and often perilous political and spiritual ground, expounding on issues global and local, individual and universal, often drawing anecdotally on his own life experience.

    We hear from Wiesel on subjects that include the moral responsibility of both individuals and governments; the role of the state in our lives; the anatomy of hate; the threat of technology; religion, politics, and tolerance; nationalism; capital punishment, compassion, and mercy; and the essential role of historical memory.

    These conversations present a valuable and thought-provoking distillation of the thinking of one of the worldâ??s most important and respected figuresâ??a man who has become a moral beacon for our time.

  • 0805241922
  • 9780805241921
  • Elie Wiesel, Richard D. Heffner
  • 1 October 2001
  • Schocken Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 192
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