Preface • 9
Why I Write • 13
To Believe or Not to Believe • 23
Inside a Library • 37
The Stranger in the Bible • 49
A Celebration of Friendship • 75
Peretz Markish • 87
Dialogues • 95
Pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Night • 105
Sighet Again • 123
Kaddish in Cambodia • 131
Making the Ghosts Speak • 135
Passover • 147
Meeting Again • 155
Trivializing Memory • 165
Bitburg • 173
Testimony at the Barbie Trial • 179
When Memory Brings People Together • 191
More Dialogues • 203
What Really Makes Us Free? • 219
Are We Afraid of Peace? • 225
The Nobel Address • 231
The Nobel Lecture • 237