Catharsis is a powerful and deeply personal collection of poems by Judge Theodor Meron, one of the world's leading authorities on international justice and a survivor of the Holocaust. Written in the years following the death of his wife, Monique, these poems explore the terrain of grief, memory, and spiritual endurance with a rare combination of vulnerability and intellectual clarity.

Meron reflects on the ache of absence, the persistence of love, and the struggle to remain whole when solitude becomes "a bane" and the past refuses to loosen its hold. His poems move fluidly between the intimate and the historical: childhood in the Jewish ghetto, the railway bridge that marked the boundary of survival, the brutality of war, and the moral failures of bystanders. He writes, too, of the natural world - the Brittany coast, the C