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Self-Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor (Hardcover)
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Self-Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor (Hardcover)
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The breadth of Werner Weinberg's scholarship was prodigious,
yielding monographs on ancient Hebrew epigraphy and biblical
exegesis; the syntax of Rabbinic Hebrew; medieval grammars; and
numerous studies on various aspects of Modern Hebrew. Both Weinberg
and Lisl, his wife, survived internment at the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp. This collection of essays reprinted here, a
little more than three decades after it first appeared, conveys
Weinberg's ongoing struggle to put into words something that might
offer understanding to post-Holocaust generations. But they are
also about a survivor's own desire for meaning and sense in a
senseless world. Most essays are framed around a series of
questions which constitute Weinberg's "prison," and each time he
attempts to pass through its portal, he finds himself "held back at
the threshold." Self-Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor fuses
together Weinberg's most personal of reflections alongside careful
analysis by an erudite theologian fully versed in traditional
Jewish sources and historiography. He moves between resisting and
acquiescing to the implications of Bergen-Belsen, never shying away
from the most painful questions about God, morality, virtue, and
the individual's potential to do good. While today there is a vast
literature penned by holocaust survivors and historians, this
collection grapples with the concept of survivorship from a unique
perspective.
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