The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness - Rilegato

Wiesenthal, Simon; Cargas, Harry James; Fetterman, Bonny V.

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ISBN 10: 0805241450 ISBN 13: 9780805241457

Casa editrice: Schocken Books, 1997

Riassunto

An international group of philosophers, critics, writers, and thinkers weighs the moral issues involved in Wiesenthal's young Jewish protagonist's response to a dying Nazi's confession of mass murder and plea for absolution. 20,000 first printing.

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L'autore

Simon Wiesenthal was born in 1908 in Buczacz, Galicia, at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was incarcerated between 1941 and 1945 in Buchenwald and Mauthausen and other concentration camps. In 1946, together with 30 other survivors, he founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Center, which was instrumental in the identification of over 1,100 Nazi war criminals. He has been honored by the governments of Italy, the Netherlands, Israel, and the United States. Wiesenthal is the author of many books, including The Murderers Among Us, Justice Not Vengeance, Sails of Hope, and Every Day Remembrance Day. Wiesenthal lives in Austria.

Among the contributors:

Sven Alkalaj, Bosnian Ambassador to the U.S., Mosh

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oned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew.

This unusual encounter and the moral dilemma it posed raise fundamental questions about the limits and possibilities of forgiveness. Must we, can we forgive the repentant criminal? Can we forgive crimes committed against others? What do we owe the victims?

Thirty-five years after the Holocaust, Wiesenthal asked leading intellectuals what they would have done in his place. Collected into one volume, their responses became a classic of Holocaust literature and a touchstone of interfaith dialogue. This revised edition of The Sunflower includes 46 responses (ten from the original volume) from prominent theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and v

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• Editore: Schocken Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805241450
• ISBN 13: 9780805241457
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 271
• Redattore: Cargas Harry James, Fetterman Bonny V.