Elie Wiesel Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

Name: Elie Wiesel Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives
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ISBN: 9780253008053

ISBN-10: 0253008050

ISBN-13: 9780253008053

Edition: 2013

Authors: Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen

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Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and experience. In this volume, leading scholars in the fields of Biblical, Rabbinic, Hasidic, Holocaust, and literary studies offer fascinating and innovative analyses of Wiesel's texts as well as illuminating commentaries on his considerable influence as a teacher and as a moral voice for human rights. By exploring the varied aspects of Wiesel's multifaceted career--his texts on the Bible, the Talmud, and Hasidism as well as his literary works, his teaching, and his testimony--this…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/17/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Bible and Talmud



Alone with God: Wiesel's Writings on the Bible




Wiesel as Interpreter of Biblical Narrative




Wiesel and Rabbi Akiva




Wiesel and the Stories of the Rabbis




Hasidism



Wiesel in the Context of Neo-Hasidism




Reflections on Wiesel's Hasidic Tales




Yearning for Sacred Place: Wiesel's Hasidic Tales and Postwar Hasidism




The Hasidic Spark and the Holocaust




Belles Lettres



Lot's Wife and "A Plea for the Dead": Commemoration, Memory, and Shame




The Storyteller in History: Shoah Memory and the Idea of the Novel




Wiesel's Post-Auschwitz Shema Yisrael




Dreams and Dialogues: Wiesel's Holocaust Memories




The Trauma of History in The Gates of the Forest




Victims, Executioners, and the Ethics of Political Violence: A Levinasian Reading of Dawn




Testimony



Dialectic Living and Thinking: Wiesel as Storyteller and Interpreter of the Shoah




Wiesel's Aggadic Outcry




Whose Testimony? The Confusion of Fiction with Fact




Wiesel's Testament




Amï¿½ry, Levi, Wiesel: The Futility of Holocaust Testimony




Legacies



With Shadows and With Song: Learning, Listening, Teaching




Teaching through Words, Teaching through Silence: Education after (and about) Auschwitz




Toward a Methodology of Wonder




Wiesel's Contribution to a Christian Understanding of Judaism




Conscience



Contributors


Index