Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Biblische Theologie
Angaben zur Quelle:
16 (2001) 109-132
Schlagwort(e):
Wiesel, Élie,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Kurzfassung:
Points out that Wiesel has been rooted from childhood in Jewish tradition, but with a rupture created by the Holocaust. He has said that one must speak about the Holocaust but cannot give it meaning. Jewish tradition contains complaints against God - e.g. in Job, in Midrash Ekha Rabbah, and in Hasidism, but these always end in God's answer and justification. In the Holocaust, as Wiesel recounts in his works, men called on God, but God did not answer. Rabbis in the concentration camps called God to account and refused to justify him, even while they continued to pray to him. Thus Wiesel himself continues to draw on Jewish sources but rejects every attempt at theodicy.
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