The Wind Still Mourns

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THE WIND STILL MOURNS is the culmination of David Hellers reflectionson the Holocaust, first studied as an adult while completing his honors thesis at Harvard. With this compendium of poetry,Dr. Heller brings a survivor-childs heartfelt emotions along with his scholarly perceptionsto capture the agony and horror of mans inhumanity. At the sametime, he expounds on the infinite lingering questions of faith and doubt that follow the Holocaust, as well as the very nature of mankind. Among the topicsthat his poems address are the following: his fathers harrowing experiences and losses, the anatomy of evil, the contempt of the other, fascism,the worlds indifference and passivity, the mixed nature of life, the importanceof remembrance, making sense of the senseless, the question of justice,modern versions of Nazism, the struggle over faith, and the unique life journeyfor a descendant of the Holocaust legacy. These selections are as movingas they are thought-provoking, as relevant today as they were in the lastbarbarous century.

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