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After close to three decades at Harvard, Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel '57 this summer moved to Rockefeller University to expand his research, the noted nuerobiologist said yesterday...
NONFICTION: Eleni, Nicholas Gage Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity, Robert McAfee Brown Kleist, Joachim Maass ¶The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill...
...first days behind barbed wire, babies were thrown into ovens and God was banished from everywhere but memory: "I've got 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...
Nihilism scratches the surfaces of these works. But Brown acutely perceives the "in spite of that moves below the words: "When anguish is summoned, joy emerges; when mourning is appropriate, celebration intrudes." Wiesel's refusal to despair is not born out of blind faith and certainly not out of innate optimism. It arises, like most prophetic tendencies, from a balance of terror: the riddle of God on one side, the knowledge of man on the other. Brown enlivens his text with quotes, none more pertinent than Wiesel's self-analysis: "When you live on the edge...
...evil to forget? Is it necessary to remember? Perhaps remembrance is a matter of sociobiology. Perhaps we remember what it is necessary to remember for survival, and we forget what it is necessary to forget. The author Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, states the case on eloquently pragmatic grounds: "Memory is our shield, our only shield." To Wiesel, only memory can immunize mankind against a repetition of the slaughter...