Dr. Léonard Rosmarin should perhaps be given the title of “Honorary Member” of WEN since he has been so active here since 2012. He has presented six books during WEN’s Breakfast Meetings, has been a judge of its Short Story Contest three times, and has twice written the preface for its yearly anthology. He is Professor Emeritus of Brock University and former Chair of its Department of Modern Languages. He has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Doctoral Studies at the University de Perpignan, and is the author of 17 books as well as a contributor to the encyclopedic Histoire juive de la France (The Jewish History of France) printed by one of the most illustrious publishing houses in the world, Albin-Michel in Paris. Incidentally, he was the only Canadian scholar invited to participate in this project, along with people from Yale, Oxford, Berkely, Princeton and the University of Paris. His latest book, which he will be presenting today, Words of Witness, The Fiction of Élie Wiesel, was launched at the international Frankfurt Book Fair in October of last year and is already generating its own buss. It is being carried by the Indigo/Chapters chain of bookstores. Next week he is off to Florida where he will lecture on Élie Wiesel at the Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale. His talk will be attended by about 100 book lovers and will be streamed live throughout North America. He has also been decorated twice by the Government of France for outstanding service in the cause of French letters. And he assures me that all this activity helps keep him from aging too quickly.
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