Wiesel and Rabbi Akvia
TitleWiesel and Rabbi Akvia
Author
Call number813.54/0162
Object number08597c
Place of publicationBloomington, Indiana, United States
PublisherIndiana University Press.
Year of publication
2013
Physical descriptionpp30-37
MaterialArticle
Series titleJewish literature and culture
ISBN9780253008053
NotesArticle from the book 'Elie Wiesel, Jewish, literary, and moral perspectives.' pp30-37
Description
Explores Wiesel's admiration of Rabbi Akvia's and confrontation of the Rabbi's martyrdom - why it was exalted as such and how has this, if at all, influenced or created a sense of Jewish passivity? And can we even compare the Rabbi's circumstances with the modern horrors thrust upon Jews by the Holocaust?
