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Schocken Books
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November 1995
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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.
Author
Elie Wiesel
Book Format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Schocken Books
Published
November 1995
Edition
New edition
Weight
237g
Page Count
192
Dimensions
133 x 204 x 17 mm
ISBN
9780805210538
ISBN-10
0805210539
Eden Code
1159623
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Author/Creator: Elie Wiesel
ISBN: 9780805210538
Publisher: Schocken Books
Release Date: November 1995
Weight: 237g
Dimensions: 133 x 204 x 17 mm
Eden Code: 1159623