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Editorial
The Editors
The SIDIC Center, in collaboration with the Pontifical Gregorian University and Universitŕ Di Roma "Tor Vergata", organized the International Symposium GOOD AND EVIL AFTER AUSCHWITZ: ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR TODAY. It took place in Rome on September 22-25, 1997.
Sister Lucy Thorson, NDS, Directress of SIDIC Center, welcomed representatives from Europe, North and South America, Egypt and Australia. She expressed the hope that this international forum would enable scholars and educators to apply their learnings about the Shoah to the critical ethical issues which society faces today. "It is our hope that this Symposium will remind us that the Shoah did inaugurate a new era in human selfawareness and human possibility - an era capable of unprecedented destruction or unparalleled hope. May this Symposium be a concrete experience of hope in which the diversity of opinions will be a visible reminder to listen and learn from various voices, to honor and respect our differences, and to build bridges to a 215" century society which will live well with diversity."
This issue presents some of these "various voices" which were heard at the Symposium. We are unable to feature all the speakers or present entire texts. Future publications of the Proceedings in English and Italian will provide this. The following pages contain excerpts from and précis of texts, as presented at the Symposium, by speakers chosen to represent Christian and Jewish voices as well as a diversity of countries, cultures and generations. It is our hope that this issue of SIDIC will inspire our subscribers to read the full Proceedings when they are published.
HONORING
With this issue of SIDIC we honor Professor EmiI L. Fackenheim who opened the Symposium with the keynote address: Abraham's Covenant Under Assault. The Need for a Post-Holocaust Theology: Jewish, Christian and - as will emerge - Muslim.
Fora life dedicated to recovering and learning from the era of the Shoah, we honor this brilliant philosopher, this man of constant faith and hope.
