Struggle for Understanding

Victoria Nesfield is Research Coordinator in the Humanities Research Centre at the University of York, in the United Kingdom. Philip Smith is Professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design Hong Kong.

• ForewordPeppy MargolisIntroductionVictoria Nesfield and Philip SmithPart I. Hasidic Origins1. Between Fiction and Reality: Elie Wiesel’s MemoirsMenachem Keren-Kratz2. The Death of Humanity and the Need for a Glory Culture: The Existential Project of Elie WieselYakir Englander3. The Role of the Four Prophet Figures in Night Mary Catherine MuellerPart II. The Other4. Embracing Madness: Elie Wiesel’s Madmen and Their Role in His WorksJennifer Murray5. The Bystander in Elie Wiesel’s The Town Beyond the Wall Christin Zühlke6. Enduring Anti-Semitic Christian Scripts in Elie Wiesel’s The Gates of the Forest Lucas WilsonPart III. Theology and Tradition7. Stories Untold: Theology, Language, and the Hasidic Spirit in Elie Wiesel’s The Gates of the Forest Ariel Evan Mayse8. Testifying, Writing, and Putting God in the Dock: Elie Wiesel and the Crisis of Traditional TheodicyFederico Dal Bo9. The Importance of Memory: Jewish Mysticism and Preserving History in Elie Wiesel’s The Forgotten Eric J. SterlingPart IV. Later Works10. Transcultural Networks of Holocaust Memories in Elie Wiesel’s The Time of the Uprooted Dana Miha˘ilescu11. Wiesel’s Political Vision in Dawn, The Testament, and Hostage Rosemary Horowitz12. Allegories of the Holocaust in Elie Wiesel’s Late Fiction: The Forgotten, The Sonderberg Case, and Hostage Sue ViceContributorsIndex

"Nesfield and Smith's collection of essays performs a great service for readers of the work of Elie Wiesel … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"This is a marvelous collection. The essays are written by a new generation of scholars who have probed Elie Wiesel's work deeply and used the manifest tools of their many disciplines to explore some of the most pressing questions relating to the Holocaust, to memory, and to Wiesel himself. I was deeply impressed." — Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish University