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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 6 mentions » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Simon Wiesenthal | — | primary author | all editions | calculated | Alkalaj, Sven | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Améry, Jean | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Balic, Smail | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bejski, Moshe | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Berger, Alan L. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Brown, Robert McAfee | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Cargas, Harry James | Editor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Cargas, Harry James | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Coles, Robert | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Dalai Lama | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Fetterman, Bonny V. | Editor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Fisher, Eugene J. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Flannery, Edward H. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Fleischner, Eva | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Fox, Martthew | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Goldstein, Rebecca | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Gordon, Mary | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Goulden, Mark | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Habe, Hans | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Halevi, Yossi Klein | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hertzberg, Arthur | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hesburgh, Theodore M. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Heschel, Abraham Joshua | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Heschel, Susannah | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hobday, Jose | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hollis, Christopher | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Kamenetz, Rodger | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | König, Cardinal Franz | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Kushner, Harold S. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Langer, Lawrence L. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Levi, Primo | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lipstadt, Deborah E. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Littell, Franklin H. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Locke, Hubert G. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Loewy, Erich H. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Marcuse, Herbert | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Marty, Martin E. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ozick, Cynthia | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Pawlikowski, John T. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Prager, Dennis | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Pran, Dith | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Prittie, Terence | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ricard, Matthieu | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Rubenstein, Joshua | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Shachnow, Sidney | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Soelle, Dorothee | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Speer, Albert | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Sperber, Manès | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Stein, André | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Tec, Nechama | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Telushkin, Joseph | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Todorov, Tzvetan | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Tutu, Desmond | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Waskow, Arthur | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wu, Harry | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bearse, M. Kristen | Designer | secondary author | some editions | confirmed |
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But the God who allowed the Holocaust did not, and does not, have the standing to forgive the monsters who had carried out the murders. (Arthur Hertzberg) On the other hand, when Simon Wiesenthal visited the dead soldier's mother in Stuttgart some months later, he was right not to deprive her of her illusions about her son. He did not visit his sins on her. Wiesenthal obeyed the Biblical injunction that each of us dies for our own sins, and not even for those of our children or of our parents. (Arthur Hertzberg) But there are always time lags between the several stages in translating moral and religious guilt into civil and juridical guilt. First there is the realization that some wickedness is not like an earthquake or a flood: it is wrong, and someone did it. Then there is the time lag until the thought penetrates the communal mind that if someone did it, the person can be punished (and others so inclined be discouraged.) There follows the time lag until the crime is defined and the punishment decreed for perpetrators. Finally there is a time lag until the laws that are on the book generally can be enforced. (Franklin H. Littel) (emphasis added) There is much that silence can teach us, if we could but learn to listen to it. Not the least of its lessons is that there may well be questions for which there are no answers and other questions for which answers would remove the moral force of the question. […] We concede that we are not gods and that we lack, as much as we might be loath to admit it, the capacity to provide understanding and assurance for every inexplicable moment in life. (Hubert G. Locke) | |
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The hardcover of REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION 32 new contributions and 1 revised contribution, as compared to the ORIGINAL EDITION. It is significantly changed from the first edition.
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biographical of Wiesenthal's experience in the concentration camp. on a job near a hospital, he is selected to go with a nurse to meet a patient. patient is completely wrapped up, only two holes for the eyes. he is an SS. he speaks to Wiesenthal, telling him about an atrocity against jews that he was involved in. Before he dies, he wants forgiveness from a Jew before he dies.. he says he was a good Christian and regrets what he has done. Wiesenthal leaves the room without giving his forgiveness. He felt that he is not one to give it. he is haunted by his decision.
after the war he visits the SS's mother, and doesn't end up telling her the truth about her son.
the question is whether can one forgive the nazi's for their atrocities .
After the book, different journalists, thinkers, theologian...write their thoughts. ( )