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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 179.7
EAN: 9780805210606
Edition: Rev Exp Su
ISBN: 0805210601
Label: Schocken
Manufacturer: Schocken
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: May 01, 1998
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date: April 07, 1998
Studio: Schocken
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Author Simon Weisenthal recalls his demoralizing life in a concentration camp and his envy of the dead Germans who have sunflowers marking their graves. At the time he assumed his grave would be a mass one, unmarked and forgotten. Then, one day, a dying Nazi soldier asks Weisenthal for forgiveness for his crimes against the Jews. What would you do? This important book and the provocative question it poses is birthing debates, symposiums, and college courses. The Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Primo Levi, and others who have witnessed genocide and human tyranny answer Wiesenthal's ultimate question on forgiveness.
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While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place?
In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past. Often surprising and always thought provoking, The Sunflower will challenge you to define your beliefs about justice, compassion, and human responsibility.
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I absolutely loved this book. He talks about his experience in the concentration camps and how one SS soldier was on his death bed asking him for his forgiveness for a horrible act he committed, and his reaction to that request. You will also learn the significance of the sunflower. It definitely opens your mind and makes you think about your life and what you would have done in that situation. I highly recommend this book.
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This is an excellent and provocative book. I recommend it without reservation. I am surprised, however, that there are no responses from mainline protestant clergy and only one or two from protestant leaders in Christian theology. There are numerous responses from Catholic priests, bishops, and theologians, but no protestant clergy. (There is one Episcopalian -- a converted Catholic priest!) The Catholic responses generally, in my view, follow a similar argument and reach a unified conclusion. ... Read More
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My nephew had had to read this years ago for a high school class. he loaned it to me at that time so we could talk about it. I was expecting a superficial, perhaps dramatic read on the topic. I was surprised at the depth of the book and the way it provoked me to examine my own feelings on Forgiveness. Recently, I found myself in a situation demanding I be clear on my feelings and actions concerning forgiveness and searched out this book again to help me work it out. It has been about 10 years since ... Read More
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I stumbled on The Sunflower a couple of years ago, and as soon as I read it, I knew I had to use it in my theological foundations class, which I have now done for the past few semesters. Without fail, students have been absolutely blown away by it - they regularly list it as their single favorite aspect of the class. The story does not let the reader off the hook easily - "What would you have done?" is only one of a dozen impossible questions the book puts before the reader. Considering the meaning of ... Read More
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One of my professors extolled the virtues of this book, but I was not too thrilled with it. It was ok. Still have not read the whole thing and will likely give it away to someone who may appreciate it.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.7
EAN: 9780805210606
Edition: Rev Exp Su
ISBN: 0805210601
Label: Schocken
Manufacturer: Schocken
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: May 01, 1998
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date: April 07, 1998
Studio: Schocken