The Elie Wiesel Living Archive

at The 92nd Street Y, New York. Supported by The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

Struggle

The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting

Dec 16, 1999

Acknowledging that to struggle in all fields of social, religious, political and economic endeavor is human, Professor Wiesel questions what struggle is all about. He distinguishes between struggle for power and struggle against power and agrees with Milan Kundera that the struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. In particular, Professor Wiesel has wanted the world to know the nature of the survivors’ struggle and tells of his engagement in the struggle for human rights, prioritizing Jewish causes but not exclusively. Professor Wiesel teaches us that the noblest of all struggles are linked to learning a text and that study incites action.

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Subthemes:
1) Human Struggle
2) Jewish Struggle
3) Life and Work of Survivors
4) Memories of Suffering
5) Jewish Revolts in the Holocaust
6) Beauty of the Hebrew Language
7) Philological Anatomy of the Word Milchama
8) Bravery of the Partisans
9) Antisemitism
10) Hatred, a Definition
11) Role of the Jewish Writer
12) Tribulations of Wiesel, the Writer
13) What is a Jew?
14) Fanaticism vs. Intolerance
15) Friendship as an Antidote to Hatred
16) Suicide Among Writers on the Holocaust
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