Elie Wiesel Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives [Hardcover]

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 careerhis texts on the Bible, the Talmud, and Hasidism as well as his literary works, his teaching, and his testimonythis 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 careerhis texts on the Bible, the Talmud, morality and Hasidism as well as his literary works, his teaching, and his testimonythis thought provoking volume adds considerable depth to our understanding of his impact.[An] illuminating collection of 24 academic essays . . . [and a] valuable look back on Wiesels heroic authorial career.

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 HistorylƒX