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Week of 30 October 1998 |
Vol. II, No. 12 |
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Memorial to memory |
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The University's symposium in honor of Elie Wiesel's 70th birthday drew large and captivated audiences to Metcalf Hall on October 25, 26, and 27. Some two dozen academics, religious leaders, and literary figures -- including Aharon Appelfeld, shown above with Wiesel -- spoke on the theme The Claims of Memory. Appelfeld, one of Israel's supremely gifted novelists, discussed the summer after the end of World War II, when he began to reclaim prewar memories he had buried within himself. Appelfeld had escaped from a concentration camp as a child, and while he was on the run, he explained, hiding his Jewishness was so critical that "memory was our enemy." Photo by Fred Sway |
