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"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 Night, Dawn, The Forgotten, The Gates of the Forest, The Town Beyond the Wall, The Testament, The Sonderberg Case, and Hostage. What emerges is a portrait of Wiesel's work in its full literary richness"--

Wiesel, Elie, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Wiesel, Eliezer, --- Wiezel, Eli, --- Vizel, Eli, --- Weisel, Elie, --- Визель, Эли, --- וויזל, אליעזר --- וויזל, אליעזר, --- וויזל, אליעזר4 --- ווייזעל, אלי, --- וויסל, עליעזר --- ויזל, אלי --- ויזל, אלי,

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For many, the Holocaust made thinking about ethics in traditional ways impossible. It called into question the predominance of speculative ontology in Western thought, and left many arguing that Western political, cultural and philosophical inattention to universal ethics were both a cause and an effect of European civilization's collapse in the twentieth century. Emmanuel Levinas, Elie Wiesel and Richard Rubenstein respond to this problem by insisting that ethics must be Western thought's first concern. Unlike previous thinkers, they locate humanity's source of universal ethical obligation in the temporal world of experience, where human suffering, rather than metaphysics, provides the ground for ethical engagement. All three thinkers contend that Judaism’s key lesson is that our fellow human is our responsibility, and use Judaism to develop a contemporary ethics that could operate with or without God. Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust explores selected works of Levinas, Wiesel, and Rubenstein for practical applications of their ethics, analyzing the role of suffering and examining the use each thinker makes of Jewish sources and the advantages and disadvantages of this use. Finally, it suggests how the work of Jewish thinkers living in the wake of the Holocaust can be of unique value to those interested in the problem of ethics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Presenting a thorough investigation of the work of Levinas, Wiesel and Rubinstein, this book is of key interest to students and scholars of Jewish studies, as well as Jewish ethics and philosophy.

Suffering --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Rubenstein, Richard L. --- Wiesel, Elie, --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- 296*52 --- 296*52 Joodse ethiek: Halacha; Minhag (gewoonten); Tora --- Joodse ethiek: Halacha; Minhag (gewoonten); Tora --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Jews --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Affliction --- Masochism --- Pain --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Wiesel, Eliezer, --- Wiezel, Eli, --- Vizel, Eli, --- Weisel, Elie, --- Визель, Эли, --- וויזל, אליעזר --- וויזל, אליעזר, --- וויזל, אליעזר4 --- ווייזעל, אלי, --- וויסל, עליעזר --- ויזל, אלי --- ויזל, אלי, --- Lévinas, E. --- Leṿinas, ʻImanuʼel --- Levinas, Emani︠u︡el --- לוינס׳ עמנואל --- לוינס, עמנואל --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, --- Rubenstein. Richard L. --- Līfīnās, Īmānwāl --- ليفيناس، إيمانوال --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945) --- Suffering - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Wiesel, Elie, - 1928-2016 --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995