Against Silence: The Voice and Vision of Elie Wiesel:
Riemer, Jack
sion. Perhaps it is Kohut's tie to ego structure of the,nuclear self? His...
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...And that out of it there may come instruction he feels that anyone who writes about this and healing and blessing for humankind...
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...communications, he is a professor of Russian...
...She con- Are you looking for a way to be yourself & The candidate must have a graduate de- tinued that work abroad, found love and still be Church...
...She relates this story humanly, at 30, 31, and November 1, 1986, Sarasota, not as a moralist...
...ings...
...33577, (813) 955- of self-assigned work by which he tried 4263...
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...Yet its consequences on Kirkridge Florida For information: The Rev...
...Robert her political views and life become appa- Bangor, PA Stull, Institute for Christian Studies, rent when her husband was finally freed, November 7, 8, 9, 1986 Church of the Redeemer, 222.S...
...which all the "new lefts" shared...
...We have lived of his childhod that can never more be through a second Sinai, a darker Sinai, regained, but the pain does not lie dor-.: whose name was Auschwitz, a Sinai that mant...
...Just as Moses was told to to believe that it is possible to juxtapose take off his shoes because the ground he words and weapons, that one can counter stood on was holy ground when he faced force with spirit, that one can overcome the burning bush, so Wiesel wants us to evil with instruction, that one can defeat take off our pat phrases and our prosaic destruction by study...
...more reason to hate or to despair than he • The Gospel of Salvation Our The first is that few Jewish thinkers in does, and yet no one is gentler and more Response in the Holy Spirit to the our time have published as much or spo- full of hope...
...because out of such silence there may -International Bulletin THERE are many paradoxes in the writ- emerge a deeper human response than of Missionary Research ings and in the life of Elie Wiesel...
...She is an associate professor of Biblical Meditation Songs...
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...sometimes - not often but sometimes - 4 Commonweal: 476 there are responses to his words that give these words (which unfortunately came in Washington, thousands, of miles away...
...Contact: SisThe "socialism with a human face" of For more information: ter M. Concilia Moran, RSM, Vice Presithe Prague Spring was not only a top- Anthony Ciccariello dent for Mission Effectiveness, Sisters of 520 W. Gray St...
...Catholic Dialogue on Mission A (ERCDOM) (is] another land, mark, in our judgment, that will Seer of the darkest Sinai have lasting influence on our i understanding and action in AGAINST SILENCE And so it is strange to see this peripatetChristian mission...
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...Irving Abrahamson's seventy-page inKaddish because the past informs what Suddenly the insignificant village of troduction to these volumes is a work of they see before them, and here a desper- Sighet, whose Jewish population was so meticulous scholarship and the bibliogate family in Argentina that feels aban- cruelly annihilated, suddenly that village raphy at the end is comprehensive...
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...Modern/ as a diplomat in London after the war...
...He has every right, every Gospel The Church and the Gospel • The Gospel and Culture The ken as often as he has, and yet no one reason, to want revenge, and yet there is Possibility of Common Witness feels the imperative of silence as much as not a syllable of vengeance in his writhe does...
...In can come from any words...
...I suspect that could properly establish the limits and such significance in shaping the Kohut did not quite get to the language he virtues of Kohut's very real findings...
...a Christians to worship, support and stimulate happiness, only to die from cancer before inward/outward journeys cutting across all knowledge of the Catholic Church's teachseeing the publication of this fascinating boundaries...
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...reality to his hope and reason for his too late to be included in these volumes) Suddenly Sighet towered over Washingfaith...
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...He wants us to leave it alone what he has seen, he can still hold on to i. B. El:RD•MANS if we can, rather than commercialize it or such convictions, and yet he does...
...Only the Scalekeeper in heaven can make such a weighing, and yet we get caught up as we read his words in his hope that small deeds matter, that words are heard, and that lessons do register on the minds and '1'I 11, .( )I ,( )( II( ' rI , t N I( )N souls of students...
...one sits in silence - an Kavan established with her son's generaeloquent silence within which one's own tion during the final Novotny years and in soul has room to grow...
...Whoever heard or read 12 September 1986: 477 restless, probing, growing, searching, Berlin, New York, and even London...
...One marvels that way of thinking when we draw near to the after what he has been through, after Holocaust...
...FREEDOM AT A PRICE: AN ENG- the first heady Dubcek moments...
...Your place is with the victims of the SS," \ (;R \I)I \I I 1(:IIOOI he said in words that were heard all OI \lI\ICI I.l around the world...
...I challenging soul...
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...Instead, there is a sense of symliterary form - short story, novel, can- pathy for the world that now finds itself tata, drama, essay, and vignette - and in a Jewish situation, in a precarious situyet one of the motifs that appears over ation, and which must now turn to the and over again in his writings is the need Jews for instruction and guidance...
...instead with blunt words of criticism of the president's trip to Bitburg...
...in the name of Sighet...
...i Rosemary Kavan met her husband dur- Rosemary captures some of the quality of RATES: 750 a word, one time...
...prayerful study and critical Jack Riemer Listen...
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...She REVIEWERS quickly got a political education, or so MARILYN J. YOUNG and her husband, Cassettes she must have thought at the time...
...up until they could speak truth to power years, a journey in the company of a How weigh such small gestures in the scales against all the indifference and callousness in the world...
...Wiesel chose to respond 111111( II,I(ill,I.1- II(,I1.1,II i,i'_ I-,1(11111...
...As doned learns there is concern as well as became the Treasurehouse where the one reads these three volumes one takes a indifference in the world because of his mighty words of the prophets were stored journey through the last twenty-five visit...
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...Crosstones, Box After the Communists took power in RABBI JACK RIEMER of Congregation Beth 884002, Walled Lake, Ml 48088...
...Pavel MICHAEL K. LAUNER, reach at Florida State Kavan served his country, and his party, University...
...and idealization are among the foremost in mission studies...
...The full Is Kohut right to view the ambition- human capacities which must be studied report of the Evangelical-Roman talents/ skills-ideals arc as the main if we are to survive, and survive well...
...They would have responded with I(1rulllrrIIIl()rln,Itl(;n.(,Ill()rvvIIII : A(Inn„I(,II,OIll...
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...this review of his collected essays and A second paradox is that no one has Major topics: Revelation and Authority The Nature of Mission addresses, let me focus on just three...
...Director: That political education was also reProgram of Ethics flected in her life with her sons, the eldest Immediate full-time theologian/ethicist of whom became a leader of the 1968 for a mufti-institution system to provide Prague Spring before being forced into THE COMPANY AT leadership focus on shaping an in- exile, where his mother - who carried KIRKRIDGE stitution's character, sensitivities, judg- on the struggle of the Spring as long as Celebrating our 10th year ments, and behaviors according to the she could despite the Russian occupation priorities of the Judeo-Christian tradition...
...eventually had to join him...
...to redeem himself and his view of what the Communist party must do...
...Then began her second, and real, political education - among the people, JAMES B. NELSON Conference where she had to find work, a woman, a on foreigner, and the mother of two young SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY "Building Genuine Community...
...He feels that what has hap- There is pain, unending pain within pened in our lifetime is too awesome to him, over the loss of the Jewish kingdom be described in words...
...sequiousness...
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...I never liked such lan- phenomenologyy of the self with Jung's, guage because I don't want to be neu- Lacan's, Bion's, Winnicott's, and varitralized, and I doubt that Kohut wanted to ous existential psychologists before we "Occasionally there is an event of be neutralized either...
...use it for mundane purposes...
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...Sinai glibly, that anyone who thinks he There is a certain naivete behind all his can describe it or explain it easily, proves writings and all his speaking...
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...The story of a Rosemary was sure he was innocent, and DICK HOWARD is Director of Euro-Links, Dachau martyr's resistance to the Nazis...
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...Pavel Jewish Treasury (Schocken...
...He was an intense, those endless evenings (where this Amertimes...
...His formulapsychology and terms like "neutraliza- tions are wise...
...Booklet was implicated in the Slansky purge trials MICHAEL EIGEN is a psychologist and Free booklet: TITUS BRANDSMA: FRIAR because of his London connections...
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