1st Edition

Elie Wiesel Humanist Messenger for Peace

By Alan L. Berger Copyright 2021
178 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Elie Wiesel: Humanist Messenger for Peace is part biography and part moral history of the intellectual and spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, human rights activist, author, university professor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. In this concise text, Alan L. Berger portrays Wiesel’s transformation from a pre-Holocaust, deeply God-fearing youth to a survivor of the Shoah... Read more

0. Introduction  PART I: Elie Wiesel  1. Shattering the Sacred Canopy  2. Elie Wiesel and Jewish-Christian Relations: A Journey of Hope Against Despair  3. The Second Generation: Memory and Jewish Identity  4. Neo-Hasidism: A Contemporary Message  5. Human Rights  6. Wiesel’s Search for World Peace  PART II: Documents

Biography

Alan L. Berger is the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University, USA. He has lectured on Jewish religious and cultural thought in America, Europe, Israel, and Japan.

This is an important, indeed vital, book for all who care about ecumenism and interfaith amity to read, use in dialogue groups, meditate upon, and strive to live up to.

Eugene J. FIsherSaint Leo University, Stl. Leo, FL, US in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, volume 59 no. 1