Ethics after Auschwitz? Primo Levi's and Elie Wiesel's Response demonstrates how, after their horrific experiences in Auschwitz, both Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel could have deservedly expressed rage and bitterness for the rest of their lives. Housed in the same barracks in the de…
Contemporary writers Albert Camus, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Elie Wiesel, and Sylvie Germain transpose the problem confronting the biblical Job in a century of total wars and genocides. Broadly influenced by a range of (a)theological perspectives, these authors grapple with existen…
This dissertation explores the poetics of loss in the autobiographical writing of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Born in 1928, Wiesel spent his early childhood in the shtetl of Sighet, situated in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania. In 1944…
As a public intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate, Elie Wiesel has stressed the importance of Holocaust remembrance and solidarity with those who suffer oppression today. While Wiesel's work has been largely ignored by secular scholars in the social sciences, Jewish and Christia…
The Holocaust of Nazi Germany raises questions that threaten to undermine current assumptions about the foundations of the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Philosophy and Theology. The academic community and other contemporary institutions fail to appreciate the significance of …
"For more than three decades Elie Wiesel and Jack Kolbert have maintained a warm, friendly relationship. The two first met at the University of New Mexico where Kolbert introduced Wiesel to a capacity audience during an annual public lecture series. During the last several years…
