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18 lip 2013 · Where is God when a child is shot in Newtown or hung in Auschwitz or killed in an American drone air strike or for that matter dies of cancer? I don’t know. There is no answer. Talk of God giving...
2 lip 2016 · Elie Wiesel Quotes on God, the Holocaust and Humanity. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, author and human rights activist passed away on Saturday at 87. Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel speaking to reporters outside the White House in Washington, May 4, 2010. Credit: Reuters.
Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.
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.”.
Elie wiesel into the American experience. It was one of the first books to ask the question: “Where was God in Auschwitz?” This question does not, however, receive a satisfactory answer. Some critics of Wiesel’s work
Elie Wiesel talks about his perspectives on the world after World War II, recollections of his time in concentration camp (5:41), the indifference of the world (12:42), antisemitism (16:42), the importance of education (22:26) and that the tragedy of the Holocaust could have been avoided (24:31).
Could anything explain their loss of ethical, cultural and religious memory? How could we ever understand the passivity of the onlookers and – yes – the silence of the Allies? And question of questions: Where was God in all this? It seemed as impossible to conceive of Auschwitz with God as to conceive of Auschwitz without God.
