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Author Downing, Frederick L.

Title Elie Wiesel : a religious biography / Frederick L. Downing.

Publication Info. Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [2008]
©2008

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 Moore Stacks  PQ2683.I32 Z656 2008    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xiv, 282 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-278) and index.
Contents Sighet: a small European Jerusalem -- A refuge: grandfather and his stories -- Bar Mitzvah and approaching tyranny -- The curse and the crisis -- Wrestling like Jacob -- Writing like Jeremiah: the poetics of memory and justice -- Further into darkness: a very troubled man -- Writing like Jeremiah II: evoking a new universe -- The poetics of grief: choosing between life and death -- A town beyond the walls: creating an alternative community beyond suffering and pain -- The return: re-envisioning God and faith -- Man and event: becoming a great man in Israel -- Re-envisioning faith and tradition -- A poet/prophet for the nations: the quest for a universalizing faith.
Subject Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016 -- Religion.
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016.
Religion.
Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, French.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Jewish authors -- Biography.
Jewish authors.
Holocaust survivors -- Biography.
Holocaust survivors -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9780881460995 hardback alkaline paper
0881460990 hardback alkaline paper