Evil and Exile
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A six-day series of interviews between Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel and French journalist Michaël de Saint Cheron, Evil and Exile probes some of the most crucial and pressing issues facing humankind today. Having survived the unspeakable evil of the Holocaust, Wiesel remained silent for ten years before dedicating his life to the memory of this tragedy, witnessing tirelessly to remind an often indifferent world of its potential for self-destruction. Wiesel offers wise counsel in this volume concerning evil and suffering, life and death, chance and circumstance. Moreover, the dialogue evokes candid and often surprising responses by Wiesel on the Palestinian problem, Judeo-Christian relations, recent changes in the Soviet Union as well as insights into writers such as Kafka, Malraux, Mauriac, and Unamuno.
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God may be unjust but is never indifferent, speculates Wiesel in these brilliant, intense interviews conducted in 1987 with French journalist de Saint-Cheron. The eminent Holocaust scholar and novelist ranges widely over Jewish-Christian relations, anti-Semitism, politics, Hasidism and Jewish thought. He is critical of Gorbachev's policy of Jewish emigration, of Pope John Paul II's meeting with Kurt Waldheim and of the Vatican's nonrecognition of the state of Israel. On the Holocaust, Wiesel urges faith and conciliation rather than forgiveness or vengeance. He reports on widespread anti-Jewish prejudice in Japan, and terms ``outrageous'' assertions that the AIDS epidemic is a consequence of sin. He urges Jews to cooperate with the liberal movement within Christianity that seeks a rapprochement with Judaism. He also discusses the contributions of other writers to his vision--Kafka's sense of exile, Dostoyevsky's preoccupation with evil, Miguel de Unamuno's ordeal of doubt.
