Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel Jewish, literary, and moral perspectives / [electronic resource] :
edited by Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen.
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2013]
- 1 online resource (1 electronic text (vii, 302 p.) :) digital file.
- Jewish literature and culture .
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Bible and Talmud -- Pt. 2. Hasidism -- Pt. 3. Belles lettres -- Pt. 4. Testimony -- Pt. 5. Legacies.
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.
9780253008121
Wiesel, Elie, 1928- --Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PQ2683.I32 / Z6635 2013
813/.54
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Bible and Talmud -- Pt. 2. Hasidism -- Pt. 3. Belles lettres -- Pt. 4. Testimony -- Pt. 5. Legacies.
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.
9780253008121
Wiesel, Elie, 1928- --Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PQ2683.I32 / Z6635 2013
813/.54