Victims and Heroes

Susan Neiman is the director of the Einstein Forum, an international interdisciplinary think tank in Berlin. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard under the great twentieth-century philosopher John Rawls and at the Freie Universität in Berlin, before teaching philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv Universities. She is the author of Slow Fire: Jewish Notes om Berlin (1992), e Unity of Reason: Rereading Kant (1994), Evil in Modern Thought (2002), and Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists (2008).