Elie Wiesel
“I don’t know if Heaven is real. But I do know that there is a paradise on earth for children.”
We Jews know what it means to be devoured.
Poems from the Sea of Death.
Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas revered the man known as Chouchani.
Mr. Shushani.
The son of the human-rights icon joins us to discuss his father’s legacy, including his views on Zionism, Judaism, and Holocaust memory.
“How do I help our Christian friends understand that the Jewish people still face blood libels today?”
“If Jews had the fortitude to believe in victory over the Greeks, then we could not now surrender our trust in defeating our enemy.”
An argument against original sin.
Never forgetting and never learning.
“Future generations will probably never believe it.”
How arguing with God became acceptable.
A genius for historical contradictions.