| The Trial of God: (As It Was Held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) Revised Edition Contributor(s): Wiesel, Elie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805210539 ISBN-13: 9780805210538 Publisher: Schocken Books Inc OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1995 Annotation: Set in a Ukrainian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Catholic - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 842.914 |
| LCCN: 95020799 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.22" W x 8.01" (0.52 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
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| Publisher Description: The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) A Play by Elie Wiesel Translated by Marion Wiesel Introduction by Robert McAfee Brown Afterword by Matthew Fox Where is God when innocent human beings suffer? This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the moral imagination. Set in a Ukranian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids. When three itinerant actors arrive in town to perform a Purim play, Berish demands that they stage a mock trial of God instead, indicting Him for His silence in the face of evil. Berish, a latter-day Job, is ready to take on the role of prosecutor. But who will defend God? A mysterious stranger named Sam, who seems oddly familiar to everyone present, shows up just in time to volunteer. The idea for this play came from an event that Elie Wiesel witnessed as a boy in Auschwitz: "Three rabbis--all erudite and pious men--decided one evening to indict God for allowing His children to be massacred. I remember: I was there, and I felt like crying. But there nobody cried." Inspired and challenged by this play, Christian theologians Robert McAfee Brown and Matthew Fox, in a new Introduction and Afterword, join Elie Wiesel in the search for faith in a world where God is silent. |