Elie Wiesel And The Art Of Storytelling

Author : Rosemary Horowitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786482680

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Elie Wiesel and the Art of Storytelling by Rosemary Horowitz Pdf

Elie Wiesel is a master storyteller with the ability to use storytelling as a form of activism. From his landmark memoir Night to his novels and numerous retellings of Hasidic legends, Wiesel’s literature emphasizes storytelling, and he frequently refers to himself as a storyteller rather than an author or historian. In this work, essays examine Wiesel’s roots in Jewish storytelling traditions; influences from religious, folk, and secular sources; education; Yiddish background; Holocaust experience; and writing style. Emphasized throughout is Wiesel’s use of multiple sources in an effort to reach diverse audiences.

Author : Victoria Nesfield,Philip Smith
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438475479

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The Struggle for Understanding by Victoria Nesfield,Philip Smith Pdf

An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels. Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazis took the lives of most of his family, destroyed the community in which he was raised, and subjected him to ghettoization, imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and a death march. It is remarkable not only that Wiesel survived and found a way to write about his experiences, but that he did so with elegance and profundity. His novels grapple with questions of tradition, memory, trauma, madness, atrocity, and faith. The Struggle for Understanding examines Wiesel’s literary, religious, and cultural roots and the indelible impact of the Holocaust on his storytelling. Grouped in sections on Hasidic origins, the role of the Other, theology and tradition, and later works, the chapters cover the entire span of Wiesel’s career. Books analyzed include the novels Dawn, The Forgotten, The Gates of the Forest, The Town Beyond the Wall, The Testament, The Time of the Uprooted, The Sonderberg Case, and Hostage, as well as his memoir, Night. What emerges is a portrait of Wiesel’s work in its full literary richness. Victoria Nesfield is Research Coordinator in the Humanities Research Centre at the University of York, in the United Kingdom. Philip Smith is Professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design Hong Kong.

Author : Ariel Burger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781328802699

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Witness by Ariel Burger Pdf

"In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protaegae and friend of one of the world's great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604138672

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Elie Wiesel's Night by Harold Bloom Pdf

Collection of critical essays about Elie Wiesel's Holocaust memoir, Night.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374534756

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Night by Elie Wiesel Pdf

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Born in Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's seminal work.

Author : Richard Stone
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0786881070

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The Healing Art of Storytelling by Richard Stone Pdf

A professional storyteller shows readers how they can achieve self-understanding and improve their relationships with others through the habit of putting their memories in story form, reflecting on them, and sharing them with others. Original.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : PSU:000064159218

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American Ethnic Writers by Anonim Pdf

Covers numerous ethnic writers and their works. All major American ethnicities are covered: African American, Asian American, Jewish American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American.

Author : Ariel Burger
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781328804075

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Witness by Ariel Burger Pdf

In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted student and friend of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel invites readers to witness one of the world's greatest thinkers in his own classroom in this instructive and deeply moving read, a National Jewish Book Award–winner. The world remembers Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) as a Nobel laureate, activist, and author of more than forty books, including Oprah’s Book Club selection Night. Ariel Burger met Wiesel when he was a teenage student, eager to learn Wiesel's life lessons. Witness chronicles the intimate conversations between these two men as Burger sought Wiesel's counsel on matters of intellect, faith, and survival while navigating his own personal journey from boyhood to manhood, from student and assistant to rabbi and teacher. In this thought-provoking account, Burger brings the spirit of Wiesel’s classroom to life, where the art of storytelling and the act of listening conspire to make witnesses of us all—as it does for readers of this inspiring book as well.

Author : Jack Kolbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050546525

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The Worlds of Elie Wiesel by Jack Kolbert Pdf

Out of Kolbert's numerous encounters with Wiesel in both America and France, and out of his intensive study of Wiesel's dozens of books and hundreds of articles, Kolbert has written a work in which he identifies a number of interconnected themes that together form the keystone of the writer's career, literary art, and his philosophy of life. Kolbert's discussions of these themes constitute the essential substance of this volume."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805211207

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Wise Men and Their Tales by Elie Wiesel Pdf

In Wise Men and Their Tales, a master teacher gives us his fascinating insights into the lives of a wide range of biblical figures, Talmudic scholars, and Hasidic rabbis. The matriarch Sarah, fiercely guarding her son, Isaac, against the negative influence of his half-brother Ishmael; Samson, the solitary hero and protector of his people, whose singular weakness brought about his tragic end; Isaiah, caught in the middle of the struggle between God and man, his messages of anger and sorrow counterbalanced by his timeless, eloquent vision of a world at peace; the saintly Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, who by virtue of a lifetime of good deeds was permitted to enter heaven while still alive and who tried to ensure a similar fate for all humanity by stealing the sword of the Angel of Death. Elie Wiesel tells the stories of these and other men and women who have been sent by God to help us find the godliness within our own lives. And what interests him most about these people is their humanity, in all its glorious complexity. They get angry—at God for demanding so much, and at people, for doing so little. They make mistakes. They get frustrated. But through it all one constant remains—their love for the people they have been charged to teach and their devotion to the Supreme Being who has sent them. In these tales of battles won and lost, of exile and redemption, of despair and renewal, we learn not only by listening to what they have come to tell us, but by watching as they live lives that are both grounded in earthly reality and that soar upward to the heavens.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180426

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven T. Katz,Alan Rosen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253008121

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Elie Wiesel by Steven T. Katz,Alan Rosen Pdf

“Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel’s interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more.” —Publishers Weekly 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 enlightening 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 career—his texts on the Bible, the Talmud, and Hasidism as well as his literary works, his teaching, and his testimony—this thought-provoking volume adds depth to our understanding of the impact of this important man of letters and towering international figure. “This book reveals Elie Wiesel’s towering intellectual capacity, his deeply held spiritual belief system, and the depth of his emotional makeup.” —New York Journal of Books “Close, scholarly readings of a master storyteller’s fiction, memoirs and essays suggest his uncommon breadth and depth . . . Criticism that enhances the appreciation of readers well-versed in the author’s work.” —Kirkus Reviews “Navigating deftly among Wiesel’s varied scholarly and literary works, the authors view his writings from religious, social, political, and literary perspectives in highly accessible prose that will well serve a broad and diverse readership.” —S. Lillian Kremer author of Women’s Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015066364970

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronald J. Berger,Richard Quinney
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1588262952

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Storytelling Sociology by Ronald J. Berger,Richard Quinney Pdf

This exciting new book is about the narrative turn in sociology, an approach that views lived experience as constructed, at least in part, by the stories that people tell about it. The book is organized around four themes family and place, the body, education and work, and the passage of time that tell a story about the life course and touch on a wide range of enduring sociological topics. The first chapter explores some of the theories of narrative that mark contemporary social analysis. Introductions to the four sections identify the narrative style and sociological themes that the essays reflect. The heart of the book, however, is not about narrative but of narrative: scholars who have been involved in class, racial/ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and disability studies compellingly write about their own life experiences.