Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Jewish Remembrancer: A Political Reading Themes of a Life The Political Economy of Worthy and Unworthy Victims 2. The Impassioned Advocate: Jewish Solidarity Respecting the Dead Defending the Survivors Mobilizing for Russian Jewry 3. The Cosmopolitan Witness: Global Solidarity A Final Solution in Paraguay Southeast Asian Refugees Central America in the 1980s 4. The Diaspora Apologist: Israel and the Fate of Palestine The Mystical Triumph of 1967 Confrontations and Disputations From the 1982 Lebanon Invasion to the "Peace Process" 5. The Worthy Victim: Moral Authority and State Power The Carter Administration and Sacred Memory The Reagan Years Bosnia, Kosovo, and Clinton 6. The Unfinished Project of Solidarity: If We Remain Silent Dangerous Remembrance From Bystanders to Resisters A Preferential Option for Unworthy Victims Notes Index
A sobering critique of the renowned Jewish writer and philosopher Wiesel
"Mark Chmiel offers a bold and much-needed analysis of the moral pretensions of one of our country's most prominent public intellectuals. His thoughtful and measured examination of Elie Wiesel's ideas and actions reaches beyond the subject of this book into the heart of what is moral behavior in a troubled world." --Howard Zinn "In this courageous book, Mark Chmiel details the ambiguity of Elie Wiesel's moral witness. On the one hand, he has been a powerful voice calling the Western world to account for the Holocaust and intervening in other social tragedies. On the other hand, he has been consistently unwilling to respond to the plight of the Palestinians, victims of the Jewish state. In conclusion Chmiel calls those concerned with a consistent moral witness today to pay particular attention to the politically disregarded victims, whose victimization exposes the imperialism of the dominant powers." --Rosemary Radford Ruether, author of Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family "Chmiel offers the first serious critique of this modern-day Jewish prophet's life and work." --Publishers Weekly
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