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2014, Folklorica
A one-of-a-kind comprehensive investigation into Elie Wiesel's legacy as a Yiddish writer and journalist who published his Yiddish writings in multiple genres, in various countries throughout the world over the course of more than five decades. This is an English translation of an article first published in Yiddish in the Yiddish Daily Forward in 2011, and then reissued this year, in revised and expanded form, in the journal Afn Shvel. When Wiesel himself read this article when it was first printed in the Yiddish Daily Forward, he responded expressing his amazement and appreciation, since up until that point, no one had yet written about his accomplishments as a Yiddish writer, especially not in such detail. The article discusses Wiesel's beginnings as a Yiddish writer and journalist in Paris in 1948, and then examines his subsequent literary and journalistic achievements in Yiddish, with reference to the Yiddish manuscript of the book Night (Un di velt hot geshvign) and the novels Shtile heldn (Quiet Heroes) and Elisha which Wiesel later serialized in the Yiddish press. The article includes the following sections: ~ Elie Wiesel’s Writerly Beginnings in Yiddish ~ ...And the World Kept Silent (Night) ~ 1945-1955: Elie Wiesel, Journalist and Yiddish Writer ~ A Torah Scholar and Talmudist ~ Elie Wiesel as a Yiddish Literary Critic ~ The Poetics of Elie Wiesel, the Yiddish Author
Clinging to Golem: A Historical and Contemporary Protector
Clinging To Golem: A Historical and Contemporary Protector2023 •
The Golem of Prague was created by Rabbi Judah Löw as a protective response to anti-Semitism and blood libels that threatened the Jews of Prague. Golem is an enduring archetype that lives on after death and is relevant to contemporary society. In recent years, a global interest in Golem's mythical persona has evolved and is reflected in modern literature, art, and pop culture. In this paper, the reader is introduced to several historical and new-age archetypes derived from Golem-themed stories authored by diverse writers. Among Jewish authors, attempts to bring back the richness of Yiddish language through literature and deep longing for sanctuary from anti-Semitism are embedded in Golem tales. However, the choice to either mask or reveal one's Jewishness through story is experienced in multiple ways, such as safeguarding internal essence, ethnic suppression, or transformation of vulnerability into liberation. Whether cloaked or openly Jewish in literature, the sacred Golem archetype offers healing for people who encounter anti-Semitism, systemic racism, and/or marginalization.
Johannes Becke / Roland Gruschka (eds.): Sprachheimaten und Grenzgänge. Festschrift für Anat Feinberg
Reading Elie Wiesel in Yiddish. On Revenge, Readership, and Translation2021 •
Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society
The Tension between Fact and Fiction in Holocaust LiteratureFor a long time, factual truth was a prerequisite for Holocaust literature. Thus, autobiographical texts were strongly preferred over fiction. From the 1980s onward, however, the boundaries between ‘fabricated’ and ‘true’ turn out to be blurred, though scandals still arise when something that was thought to be true turns out to be fabricated or non-autobiographical. For theologians who are looking for answers to the theodicy question in Holocaust literature, such as Elie Wiesel’s novella Night, the question of factuality is of less importance. What they must never lose sight of, however, is that ambiguity is an important property of literary texts, and that they do not do justice to such texts by ignoring that ambiguity. In general, theologians and philosophers searching for lessons for humanity should be wary of using the Holocaust and its literature for their own ends.
Russian Literature 77, issue 1, pp. 35-53
The Jews and the Shoah in Czech Literature after WWII2015 •
The aim of this article is to present a concise insight into the Shoah topics in Czech literature. The images of the Shoah went through various phases within Czech literature. Immediately after World War II, it primarily centered on documentary accounts of those who had lived through Nazi camps (The Death Factory by Ota Kraus and Erich Schön/Kulka about Auschwitz). Jiří Weil’s novel Life with a Star (1949) not only presented the horrible brutality of the Shoah, but also its seemingly banal, even profane side. This novel is considered the most important work on this theme in Czech literature and has inspired a multitude of other works. Arnošt Lustig, who survived both Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, entered the literary scene at the end of the 1950s. The Shoah became the topic of his life’s work (for instance A Prayer for Katarina Horovitzova). Arnošt Lustig, Ladislav Fuks (Mr. Theodor Mundstock) and other authors used persecution and extermination of the Jews also as a metaphor for man caught in the machinery of the totalitarian regime. Some of these works also became famous in film versions like The Shop on Main Street, which was inspired by the story of Ladislav Grosman and received a foreign-language Academy Award in 1965. From the end of the 1960s onwards, this theme did not play such a key role in Czech literature as it had previously. So the Shoah appears in the background of several books by Viktor Fischl who emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Israel. For the generation which had never experienced World War II, they primarily understood this theme in terms of set imagines and stark Holocaust iconography. Some younger authors attempted to push these borders through representing the Shoah in an unusual way, such fusing the grotesque, horror, vulgarity and banality (Arnošt Goldflam, Jáchym Topol).
Meeting the changing interests of people, literature has adopted itself into many genres. Holocaust is one such modern genre. The birth of the Holocaust literature was built on the fall of Humanity. It all started with an aim to become a voice for the voiceless, and a record for the History. Voices from distresses tried to shout out their cries so that the world will listen to them and understand them most of all remember them. It later stood as the reasons behind the establishment of the welfare of societies, and countries. The scripts of individual cries have now become the cry of six million silenced voices. Contributing to the construction of the perfect world 'Utopia'. Down the road of human knowledge, literature and life have run along with each other, just like sun and moon, each giving life to each, into immortality from the mortal fears, just like day and night, each chasing each to keep each other moving through ups and downs, just like day and night each refining each when one runs at the edges of morality, each supporting each through one's experience and imagination and most of all for the Literary enlightenment. Though life exists without literature, only the existence of literature gives meaning to Life. It is only literature that questions the purpose of life, it is literature that instructs about life-the good & bad, happiness & sorrow, and everything that
Partial Answers
Aharon Appelfeld and the Problem of Holocaust Fiction2006 •
The philosopher Berel Lang offers powerful arguments for the conclusion that there can be no useful fictional treatment of the Shoah. However, he grants that three writers (Celan, Appelfeld, Borowski) escape the force of these arguments. Lang is prepared to grant that, in such cases, “literary and moral genius” may enable a writer to “transcend” the “supposedly intrinsic” limitations suggested by abstract philosophical argument; but leaves open the question what such “genius” consists in. This essay is an attempt to provide an answer to that question for the specific case of Aharon Appelfeld. Appelfeld’s fictions introduce their readers into the fabric of Jewish life in Central Europe immediately prior to the catastrophe, to the extent of allowing them to feel in propria persona, and thus to attain knowledge-of, rather than merely knowledge-about, the tensions constituting the situational framework within which those lives were lived. Appelfeld’s fictions offer a way of recovering the individuality, as persons rather than numbers, of those whom the Shoah destroyed, because individuality displays itself, inter alia, in the varying of individual response to a common situation. Such recovery is relevant to our moral understanding of the Shoah, it is argued, because what is morally important about the Shoah is not merely the destruction, but the nature of what was destroyed. The essay concludes with brief discussions of the relative merits, in this connection, of fiction and memoir, and of the criticisms levelled against Appelfeld’s work by Bernstein and others.
AM - Rivista della Società italiana di antropologia medica / Journal of the Italian Society for Medical Anthropology
Tra Dioniso e Cristo. Posseduti danzanti nella tarda Antichità2024 •
Cerkiewny Wiestnik 2: 34-51
Cyrylickie stare druki Ewangelii tetr wydane w Kijowie w 1697 i 1712 roku – ich tradycja liturgiczna i oryginał. Analiza świętych i świąt obecnych w Menologionach2024 •
2024 •
European Journal of Contemporary Education and E-Learning
Information and Communication Technology Usage in School Management: A Case of Selected Hwange District Schools in Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe2024 •
2018 •
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Does Economic Vulnerability Depend on Place of Residence? Asset Poverty Across the Rural-Urban Continuum2004 •
Pediatrics International
Delayed bedtime due to screen time in schoolchildren: Importance of area deprivation2014 •
Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs
Autonomous merchant vessels: examination of factors that impact the effective implementation of unmanned ships2016 •
2008 •
2017 •
Communications in Mathematical Physics
Asymptotic Completeness for Compton Scattering2004 •
Journal of sleep disorders & therapy
Obesity and OSA in Gulf Cooperative Council Countries: Another Gulf War Syndrome2017 •
Nature Communications
Differential DNA methylation of vocal and facial anatomy genes in modern humans2020 •
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Patch choice decisions by a fission–fusion forager as a test of the ecological constraints model