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Francine Prose argues that the diary of Anne Frank is as much a deliberate work of art as it is an historical record, noting its literary merits and thoroughly investigating the diary's unique afterlife as one of the world's most read, and banned, books.
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As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from a small Carpathian town become such an influential figure on the world stage? Drawing on Wiesel's prodigious literary output and interviews with his family, friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger seeks to answer this question.
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"A personal history of comedy from the 1950s to the present, with interviews conducted by the author"--
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"Investigating how Jewish thinkers from the biblical to the postmodern era have approached questions about God-e.g, "Is God like a person?," "Is God good?," "Does God redeem?"-and highlighting interplays between texts over time, Tuling elucidates many contradictory and sophisticated ways to think about God in Jewish tradition"--