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Juliana Geran Pilon is Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, having earned her PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago. Her books include: Soulmates: Resurrecting Eve; Cultural Intelligence for Winning the Peace; Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice; The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe -- Spotlight on Romania, and Notes From the Other Side of Night. She has also published over two hundred articles and reviews on international affairs, human rights, literature, and philosophy, has made frequent appearances on radio and television, and has served on several advisory boards. She has taught at several colleges and universities including the National Defense University and George Washington University. During the 1990s, she was first Director and later Vice President for Programs at IFES (The International Foundation for Election Systems), where she designed and managed a wide variety of democratization-related projects. She has held post-doctoral fellowships in international relations at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and at the Institute of Humane Studies.
Juliana Geran Pilon is Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, having earned her PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago. Her books include: Soulmates: Resurrecting Eve; Cultural Intelligence for Winning the Peace; Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice; The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe -- Spotlight on Romania, and Notes From the Other Side of Night. She has also published over two hundred articles and reviews on international affairs, human rights, literature, and philosophy, has made frequent appearances on radio and television, and has served on several advisory boards. She has taught at several colleges and universities including the National Defense University and George Washington University. During the 1990s, she was first Director and later Vice President for Programs at IFES (The International Foundation for Election Systems), where she designed and managed a wide variety of democratization-related projects. She has held post-doctoral fellowships in international relations at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and at the Institute of Humane Studies.
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a prolific author and influential thinker.
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“Pilon, whose family emigrated from communist Rumania when she was a child, recounts the story of her return to her native land in 1975. Her observations form a grim indictment of this communist state, the drab, fear-ridden existence of its inhabitatnts, the poverty and repression that are endemic to the system. Yet despite all this, she shows, the embers of hope, compassion, and religious faith somehow survive beneath the suffocating mantle of totalitarianism. Almost as important as what she has to tell us is the phenomenon of Mrs. Pilon herself, who alternately displays the gifts of poet, philosopher, and experienced political observer. Among its other revelations, Notes from the Other Side of Night marks the unveiling of an impressive writing talent.”
—M. Stanton Evans, National Review
“There are scenes in this book that the reader will never forget - such as the celebration of the Passover, performed in the greatest secrecy. And there are fascinating, exceptional characters, admirably portrayed. . . . Like Nadejda Mandelstam in her Hope Against Hope, Juliana writes with a detached, if sometimes melancholy, sobriety, free from melodrama, about events and characters that illustrate Hannah Arendt’s terrifying ‘banality of evil.’ But Juliana remembers as well those few who managed to remain genuine human beings till the end, defying all danger. And she puts it so well, yet so simply: ‘there is nothing banal about the good. . . . ’ In essence, what she tells of the survivors, the representatives of a humanity that seemed so natural before the war, is not only deeply moving but heartening and invigorating as well. Rereading the story, one begins, once more, to believe in man.”
—Mircea Eliade, University of Chicago
“Notes from the Other Side of Nightis a moving, if ever so melancholy, set of reminiscences. That Juliana writes with both grace and sense of austere reserve about matters of gravity is a personal tribute. Her sense of the admixture of the social and religious permeates the text as a whole. It deserved to be written and moreover to be read.”
—Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers University
“Juliana Geran Pilon’s riveting narrative takes us through two tragic chapters of recent Romanian history: the Holocaust and the communist dictatorship. A powerful story of a Jewish family discriminated against by two totalitarian regimes told with great talent.”
—Radu Ioanid, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
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