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In Modern Tales: Jewish Attitudes Toward Justice

Witnessing and Recording Injustices on behalf of Victims

Nov 04, 1982

In addition to comments on justice, Professor Wiesel reads from two new books, Paroles d’etranger and Somewhere a Master. The first includes a special innovative genre called “dialogues,” an essay “Write I Write,” an essay on the shtetl (published later in English translation in Wise Men and Their Tales), and an essay on “changing” (published in English translation in The Kingdom of Memory as “Making the Ghosts Speak”). The second previews stories on the Seer of Lublin (“an angry lion”); on Rabbi Baruch of Medzibozh (God too is hiding but no one is seeking); and on the Rabbi of Varka (asked by the Kotsker where he acquired the art of being silent, he didn’t answer).

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1) Maimonides Daily Schedule
2) Moses in James Joyce’s Ulysses
3) Survival of the Jewish People
4) Anti-Semitism: Distortion of the Jews in Literature and Media
5) Anti-Semitism: The Accusers
6) The People Israel’s Obsession with Justice
7) The Injustice of Slavery
8) Jews and Power
9) Memory and Justice
10) Stories of the Shtetl
11) God as Matchmaker
12) Lessons of Childhood
13) Anger and Despair in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
14) Survivor as Witness
15) Power of Hasidic Masters and their Legends
16) Friendship and Camaraderie among Hasidim
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