Evil and Exile Revised Edition [Paperback]

“Throughout this book, Wiesel's understanding of the human condition offers both an honest assessment and also hope that we may learn to live with one another in harmony.” —The Jewish Book News
 
“Saint-Cheron probes deeply, asking searching questions about evil, responsibility, faith, and the meaning of life as well as addressing topics of current political import.  Wiesel responds passionately, offering, many penetrating, personal comments.” —Library Journal
 
 
 
 

“M. de Saint-Cheron has come with questions only about evil, a universal problem , and exile, an endemically Jewish question, but also about the whole gamut of Jewish existence, past, present, and future . . . As a result, the reader is fortunate to share Mr. Wiesel’s thoughts.  It is a privilege to see the breadth of his Jewish involvement, commitment, and understanding.  It is almost awesome as he talks of his activities, writings, and experience.”

"Two themes dominate this book: change and meaning. These form the context of six days of questions posed by Saint Cheron to Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. Contained here are probably the most comprehensive statements that Wiesel has ever made on Jewish theology, although he labels it as tradition (thought and quest) as distinguished from the more formalized theology of Christianity."

"God may be unjust but is never indifferent, speculates Wiesel in these brilliant, intense interviews conducted in 1987 with French journalist de Saint-Cheron. The eminent Holocaust scholar and novelist ranges widely over Jewish-Christian relations, anti-Semitism, politics, Hasidism and Jewish thought."

Michaël de Saint Cheronis an archivist with the Museum of France and a well-known author and journalist. The premier specialist on Elie Wiesel in the French languagelÃ&