ELIE WIESEL:
Solomon-Tenenbaum Lecturer
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| Elie Wiesel on the Koger Center stage. Behind him: Judith and Melvin Solomon, Bluma Goldberg, Janet Kolender (wife of Pincus), and Alan Kahn |
Moshe the Beadle explains to the twelve-year-old Wiesel, in Wiesel's memoir of Sighet, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald, Night (1955, 1958): ". every question possesses a power that does not lie in the answer." On the Koger Center stage in Columbia on September 12, Wiesel, now seventy-eight, embodied the playful-serious wisdom of his tradition for a packed house. He was formally welcomed by President Andrew Sorensen, Dean Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, and introduced by Carl Evans.
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| Guest Lecturer, Elie Wiesel with Carl Evans, Chair Religious Studies |
Many sponsors came forward to help make possible this year's Solomon-Tenenbaum Lecture in Jewish Studies, entitled cryptically, "Night," for the benefit of students, faculty, and the larger community. Renowned death-camp survivor, prolific author, and conscience of the Western world, Wiesel was the seventeenth holder of the lectureship established by the generosity of Samuel and Inez Tenenbaum originally and by Melvin and Judith Solomon.
The lecture was preceded by an afternoon symposium, "It's Happening Again-Darfur!," held in the School of Law auditorium.
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| Solomon-Tenenbaum Symposium participants: Scott Straus (University of Wisconsin), Ann Kinsolver (Anthropology), Charles Bierbauer (Dean, Mass Communications and Information Studies), Ron Atkinson (History), and Joel Samuels (School of Law) |
Scott Straus of the University of Wisconsin joined Joel Samuels, School of Law, Ann Kingsolver, Anthropology, and Ron Atkinson, History, in a panel discussion moderated by Charles Bierbauer, Dean, College of Mass Communications and information Studies.
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