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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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Hasidim advocated prayer whereas their opponents favored study. As for myself, I see no difference between the two. Prayer means study, study implies prayer--and both must be passionate. Both enrich memory and both are enriched by it. (00:08:00)

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A young French philosopher recently declared that anti-Semitism will become the new religion of what remains of this century, a century that will be remembered as the most violent, hypocritical and cynical in recorded history. (00:16:00)

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To the thirteen Ani Ma’amins [I Belief] recorded and codified by Maimonides, I would add a fourteenth: Ani ma’amin b’emunah shlaymah b’am Yisrael b’eretz Yisrael [I believe with complete faith in the Jewish people in the Land of Israel]. (00:18:00)

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Faced with injustice, no Jew should remain a passive onlooker. (00:22:00)

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Justice begins, therefore, with absolute respect for the other--with absolute commitment to dignity. (00:25:00)

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Power inspires fear, and God alone ought to inspire fear; men and women should inspire other things: compassion, fervor. (00:28:00)

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I am seeking my childhood; I will always be seeking it; I need it. It is necessary for me as a point of reference--as a refuge. (00:48:00)

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If by some miracle I emerge alive, I will devote my life to testifying on behalf of those whose shadow will fall on mine, forever and ever. (00:54:00)

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And when we do study, we hear the niggun [melody] of the Talmud, and through that niggun there is so much joy that is being communicated--and so much hope against hope, so much faith even when there is no reason, no possibility to proclaim that faith. (00:56:00)

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What was the Hasidic movement in its origins if not a protest against solitude? (01:03:00)

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Books:

Paroles d'etranger; Somewhere a Master; From the Kingdom of Memory; Wise Men and Their Tales

Subthemes:

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

Names:

Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon Shmuel ibn Tibbon Saadia Gaon Yehuda Halevi Don Yitzchak Arbarbanel Abraham Abulafia Israel Salanter Philo James Joyce Moses Abraham David Nachmanides Napoleon Thomas Mann Natan Sharansky Vladimir Slepak Ida Nudel Nosh Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah Malraux Judah the Maccabee Bar Kochba Besht Maggid of Mezeritch Moses Mendelssohn Kant Oppenheiver Goethe Bach Hitler Himmler Camus Samuel Beckett Seer of Lublin Reb Moshe Leib of Sassov Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz Rabbi Naftali Ropshitzer Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Rabbi Mendel of Warka Rabbi Levi Yitchak of Berditchev Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh

Key Words:

Stranger Shtetl Allies dibuk chaverim (friendship) Shechinah Exile Messiah

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