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at The 92nd Street Y, New York. Supported by The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
Dec 04, 2008
On a night of soul-searching and soul-accounting, a cheshbon hanefesh, Professor Wiesel looks back at his time at the Y, his intellectual home, his yeshiva. What unites all his study sessions is a quest for meaning, a respect for language, a commitment to memory and a passion for learning together. Professor Wiesel also speaks about current affairs: racism, posthumous conversions by the Mormon Church of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the rise of neo-Nazis, the Mumbai attacks of one week earlier that singled out Jews. He concludes the evening, adhering to tradition, by giving a pre-everything reading of his forthcoming novel, A Mad Desire to Dance. Professor Wiesel informs us that in each of his novels, he has a madman, a child, an old man and a beggar. To all these categories, which were singled out by the enemy as his first targets, Professor Wiesel has sought to offer a home.
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