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 thought-provoking volume adds depth to our understanding of the impact of this important man of letters and towering international figure.
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 thought-provoking volume adds depth to our understanding of the impact of this important man of letters and towering international figure.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Steven T. Katz is Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies and holds the Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Boston University. He is editor of The Shtetl: New Evaluations and The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology. Alan Rosen teaches Holocaust literature at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, and other Holocaust study centers. He is author of Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English and The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews with David Boder.
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Acknowledgments Introduction \ Alan Rosen Part 1. Bible and Talmud 1. Alone with God: Wiesel's Writings on the Bible \ Joel Rosenberg 2. Wiesel as Interpreter of Biblical Narrative \ Everett Fox 3. Wiesel and Rabbi Akiva \ Joseph Polak 4. Wiesel and the Stories of the Rabbis \ Reuven Kimelman Part 2. Hasidism 5. Wiesel in the Context of Neo-Hasidism \ Arthur Green 6. Reflections on Wiesel's Hasidic Tales \ Steven T. Katz 7. Yearning for Sacred Place: Wiesel's Hasidic Tales and Postwar Hasidism \ Nehemia Polen 8. The Hasidic Spark and the Holocaust \ Gershon Greenberg Part 3. Belles Lettres 9. Lot's Wife and "A Plea for the Dead": Commemoration, Memory, and Shame \ Nancy Harrowitz 10. The Storyteller in History: Shoah Memory and the Idea of the Novel \ Sara R. Horowitz 11. Wiesel's Post-Auschwitz Shema Yisrael \ Alan L. Berger 12. Dreams and Dialogues: Wiesel's Holocaust Memories \ Ellen S. Fine 13. The Trauma of History in The Gates of the Forest \ Victoria Aarons 14. Victims, Executioners, and the Ethics of Political Violence: A Levinasian Reading of Dawn \ Jonathan Druker Part 4. Testimony 15. Dialectic Living and Thinking: Wiesel as Storyteller and Interpreter of the Shoah \ Irving Greenberg 16. Wiesel's Aggadic Outcry \ David Patterson 17. Whose Testimony? The Confusion of Fiction with Fact \ Lawrence L. Langer 18. Wiesel's Testament \ Oren Baruch Stier 19. Améry, Levi, Wiesel: The Futility of Holocaust Testimony \ Alvin H. Rosenfeld Part 5. Legacies 20. With Shadows and With Song: Learning, Listening, Teaching \ Alan Rosen 21. Teaching through Words, Teaching through Silence: Education after (and about) Auschwitz \ Reinhold Boschki 22. Toward a Methodology of Wonder \ Ariel Burger 23. Wiesel's Contribution to a Christian Understanding of Judaism \ John K. Roth 24. Conscience \ Irwin Cotler Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction \ Alan Rosen Part 1. Bible and Talmud 1. Alone with God: Wiesel's Writings on the Bible \ Joel Rosenberg 2. Wiesel as Interpreter of Biblical Narrative \ Everett Fox 3. Wiesel and Rabbi Akiva \ Joseph Polak 4. Wiesel and the Stories of the Rabbis \ Reuven Kimelman Part 2. Hasidism 5. Wiesel in the Context of Neo-Hasidism \ Arthur Green 6. Reflections on Wiesel's Hasidic Tales \ Steven T. Katz 7. Yearning for Sacred Place: Wiesel's Hasidic Tales and Postwar Hasidism \ Nehemia Polen 8. The Hasidic Spark and the Holocaust \ Gershon Greenberg Part 3. Belles Lettres 9. Lot's Wife and "A Plea for the Dead": Commemoration, Memory, and Shame \ Nancy Harrowitz 10. The Storyteller in History: Shoah Memory and the Idea of the Novel \ Sara R. Horowitz 11. Wiesel's Post-Auschwitz Shema Yisrael \ Alan L. Berger 12. Dreams and Dialogues: Wiesel's Holocaust Memories \ Ellen S. Fine 13. The Trauma of History in The Gates of the Forest \ Victoria Aarons 14. Victims, Executioners, and the Ethics of Political Violence: A Levinasian Reading of Dawn \ Jonathan Druker Part 4. Testimony 15. Dialectic Living and Thinking: Wiesel as Storyteller and Interpreter of the Shoah \ Irving Greenberg 16. Wiesel's Aggadic Outcry \ David Patterson 17. Whose Testimony? The Confusion of Fiction with Fact \ Lawrence L. Langer 18. Wiesel's Testament \ Oren Baruch Stier 19. Améry, Levi, Wiesel: The Futility of Holocaust Testimony \ Alvin H. Rosenfeld Part 5. Legacies 20. With Shadows and With Song: Learning, Listening, Teaching \ Alan Rosen 21. Teaching through Words, Teaching through Silence: Education after (and about) Auschwitz \ Reinhold Boschki 22. Toward a Methodology of Wonder \ Ariel Burger 23. Wiesel's Contribution to a Christian Understanding of Judaism \ John K. Roth 24. Conscience \ Irwin Cotler Contributors Index
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