Re: [Marxism] Unintended benefit department

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

Norman Finkelstein's website has much material that
is harshly critical of Wiesel.  One piece (not authored
by Finkelstein) is Rabbi David Goldberg's review
of Wiesel's memoirs:
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=3&ar=31

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:04:03 -0500 Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >It might be worthwhile sometime to post
> >Jacob Weisberg's article,
> >  "Pop Goes Elie Wiesel," New Republic, November 10, 1986,
> >in which Weisberg documented how Wiesel and then
> >Boston University president John Silber, actively campaigned
> >to get Wiesel the Nobel Peace Prize.  Apparently, Silber
> >started out the intention of getting Wiesel the Nobel Prize
> >in Literature, then, when he discovered that Wiesel's literary
> >work was not considered to be worthy of that prize, he
> >turned his attention to getting him the Nobel Peace Prize
> >instead.
> 
> http://www.marxmail.org/wiesel.pdf 
> 
> 
>
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