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Le juif errant ou l'art de survivre / Marcello Massenzio.
- Title
- Le juif errant ou l'art de survivre / Marcello Massenzio.
- Author
- Massenzio, Marcello
- Publication
- Paris : Cerf, 2010.
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- Description
- 141 p.: [14] p. de pl.
- Summary
- Examines the ambiguous myth of the Wandering Jew, which contains anti-Jewish motifs, but views the Jew as witness to the Passion of Christ. Discusses the ambivalence of the myth as expressed in Giotto's frescos in the Scrovegni Chapel in Pauda and in two texts by Goethe. At the beginning of the 20th century the Wandering Jew was appropriated by Jewish culture. After the Shoah the legend, more than ever, came to symbolize Jewish destiny. Pp. 85-132 deal with Elie Wiesel's rending of the myth in a short story in "Legends of Our Time". Wiesel views his teacher, the legendary Rabbi Mordechai Chouchani, who also taught Emmanuel Levinas, as an incarnation of the myth. Chouchani exalts the Torah as an absolute value and argues that it prefigures all future events, including the Shoah. He inscribes the Shoah in the long history of Jewish suffering and survival.
- Series Statement
- Les conférences de l'École pratique des hautes études ; 1
- Uniform Title
- Conférences de l'École pratique des hautes études 1.
- Alternative Title
- Juif errant
- Art de survivre
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-140).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- L'empreinte de Goethe sur le mythe -- L'appropriation juive du mythe : l'empreinte de Marc Chagall -- Le juif errant après l'holocauste : Élie Wiesel.
- ISBN
- 9782204092364
- 2204092363
- OCLC
- 604912433
- SCSB-10707990
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library