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18 lip 2013 · FOR GOD’S SAKE, WHERE IS GOD? “Night” is a book by Elie Wiesel about his experience in the German concentration camps. “One day,” writes Wiesel, “as we returned from work, we saw three ...
God on the Gallows: Reading the Holocaust through Narratives of Redemption Karen Spector University of Alabama "Where is God now?" is a question from the Holocaust memoir Night by Elie Wiesel and an underlying narrative dilemma for the teachers and most student participants in this qualitative
25 sty 2020 · Wiesel’s quarrel with God assumes an unexpected dimension when he speaks about the deity as a suffering God. Citing the Sefer Ha Zohar (Book of Splendor) a central text of Jewish mysticism, Wiesel writes “God is everywhere, even in suffering and in the very heart of punishment.”.
Eliezer's faith in God is shared by many of his fellow Jews in the town of Sighet. On the trains to the concentration camps, people discuss the banishment from their homes as trial sent from God to be endured—a test of faith.
Wiesel’s quarrel with God assumes an unexpected dimen-sion when he speaks about the deity as a suffering God. Citing the Sefer Ha Zohar (Book of Splendor) a central text of Jewish mysticism, Wiesel writes “God is everywhere, even in suffering and in the very heart of punish-ment.”.
2 lip 2016 · I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree. (Interview to the Paris Review, 1984)
According to Professor Wiesel, there is one place from which God cannot be removed and that is the Bible. Professor Wiesel analyzes Biblical texts to discern and define God’s place in everything and in particular God’s design for His people and all people.
