Ebook: Elie Wiesel and the Art of Storytelling

Elie Wiesel is a master storyteller with the ability to use storytelling as a form of activism. From his landmark memoir Night to his novels and numerous retellings of Hasidic legends, Wiesel's literature emphasizes storytelling, and he frequently refers to himself as a storyteller rather than an author or historian. In this work, essays examine Wiesel's roots in Jewish storytelling traditions; influences from religious, folk, and secular sources; education; Yiddish background; Holocaust experience; and writing style. Emphasized throughout is Wiesel's use of multiple sources in an effort to re.;Cover; Table of Contents; Preface ; Introduction; Mosaics and Mirrors: Wiesel, American Autobiographies, and the Shaping of a Storied Subject (Zoe Trodd); Creative Ambiguity in Wiesel's Storytelling (Rosemary Horowitz); Elie Wiesel: Telling Stories of Children and Loss (Katherine Lagrandeur); The Storyteller and His Quarrel with God (Alan L. Berger); Wrestling with Oblivion: Wiesel's Autobiographical Storytelling as Midrash (Deborah Lee Ames); The Maggid of Sighet: Jewish Contexts for Wiesel's Storytelling (David Patterson).