The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal - ISBN: 9780805210606
Paperback
A group of philosophers, critics, and writers weigh the moral issues involved in a young Jews’ response to a dying Nazi’s confession of mass murder.

The Sunflower

On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    15 June 1998

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Summary

A Holocaust survivor’ssurprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness,justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from theDalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick,Primo Levi, and more.You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do?While imprisoned 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 whi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780805210606
ISBN-10:0805210601
Author:Simon Wiesenthal
Publisher:Schocken Books
Imprint:Schocken Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Edition:2nd
Release Date:15 June 1998
Weight:255g
Dimensions:203mm x 132mm x 17mm
About The Author

Simon Wiesenthal

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 was honored by the governments of Italy, the Netherlands, Israel, and the United States. Wiesenthal was the author of many books, including The Murderers Among Us, Justice Not Vengeance, Sails of Hope, and Every Day Remembrance Day. Wiesenthal died in 2005.

Among the contributors:

Sven Alkalaj, Bosnian Ambassador to the U.S., Moshe Bejski, retired justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, Robert McAfee Brown, leading Protestant theologian, Robert Coles, Harvard professor of social ethics and author, The Dalai Lama, Eugene Fisher, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Matthew Fox, author and leading Episcopalian theologian, Yossi Klein Halevi, Israeli journalist and son of a Holocaust survivor, Arthur Hertzberg, rabbi and author, Theodore Hesburgh, President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, Hans Konig, Cardinal of Vienna, Harold Kushner, rabbi and best-selling author, Primo Levi, Italian Holocaust survivor and author, Cynthia Ozick, novelist and essayist, Dennis Prager, author and conservative radio commentator, Dith Pran, photographer and subject of the film “The Killing Fields” about the Cambodian genocide, Albert Speer, German Nazi war criminal and author, Tzvetan Todorov, French literary critic, Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist.

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