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Synopsis
Elie Wiesel has a special position in the world as storyteller, writer, and witness to the Holocaust. Here, in LEGENDS OF OUR TIME, a memoir, he recalls or visits key places in his life and in Jewish history, and finds characters and themes familiar to readers of his novels. Some of the recollections are of his experiences as a youth, as he saw the Nazi menace closing in on his people and their way of life. He recalls a special Seder when his father invited a guest who spoke out in anger against a God he felt had abandoned the Jews. Wiesel realizes later that their guest had to be the prophet Elijah, for whom the traditional cup is poured and left. On a visit to Spain, Wiesel encounters a man who shows him an aged parchment which Wiesel realizes is the statement of a Marrano, a Jew in the time of Torquemada forced to convert to Christianity, in which he documents his name and his Jewishness. The parchment was handed down through generations, and the carrier, a Catholic, was unaware of what it said, and unaware of his Jewishness until Wiesel explained it all to him. One of the most moving pieces is his (final) visit to the town in which he grew up, and which was the setting of his novel THE TOWN BEYOND THE WALL. He cannot find any Jews at all in Sighet, until he goes to the cemetery. Wiesel writes of the trial of Eichmann and of a visit to Moscow, and addresses the issues of Jewish resistance and the world's response to the Holocaust as it was happening. In all of these pieces, the shared uniqueness of the Jewish experience comes through, as do the crimes and horrors of the 20th century.
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
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