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A Passion for Waiting: Messianism and the Jews
Leon Wieseltier in conversation with James Carroll
APRIL 29, 2007 12:00 PM
THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY

Why have the Jews never accepted a messiah? Why is the history of messianism in Judaism a history of false messianism? Some unorthodox views of the Jewish idea of redemption.

LEON WIESELTIER is the author of Kaddish and the literary editor of The New Republic.

JAMES CARROLL was ordained to the priesthood in 1969, and served as Catholic Chaplain at Boston University until 1974, when he left the priesthood to become a writer. He has published ten novels, most recently Secret Father. His memoir, An American Requiem: God, My Father and the War that Came Between Us, won the 1996 National Book Award in Nonfiction. In 2001, he published Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History. In 2004, he published Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War, a criticism of the Bush war.

Leon Wieseltier photo © Jill Krementz