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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452980903321

Titolo

Elie Wiesel [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish, literary, and moral perspectives / / edited by Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana, : Indiana University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-299-48350-X

0-253-00812-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Jewish literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

KatzSteven T. <1944->

RosenAlan <1954->

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Jewish literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. 1. Bible and Talmud -- Pt. 2. Hasidism -- Pt. 3. Belles lettres -- Pt. 4. Testimony -- Pt. 5. Legacies.

Sommario/riassunto

With this analysis Wiesel surely attempts to enter the historical context of persecution that defined Rabbi Shimon's life and milieu. But he also reclaims for his own persecuted generation of Holocaust survivors the talmudic sage's experience of oppression and the wisdom that steered a path through it. In Wiesel's universe of historical study, the Jewish past gives direction to the Jewish present (and future), while the Jewish present-particularly the lengthy shadows cast by the Holocaust-orients our approach to the past, dictates the questions we ask of it, and shows our profound relationship to those who inhabited it.