Research Catalog

Title

A beggar in Jerusalem : a novel / by Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Lily Edelman and the author.

Author

Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

Publication

• New York : Random House, [1970]
• ©1970

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Details

Additional Authors

• Edelman, Lily
• Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish American Writers NjP

Description

211 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel bids the reader to join him on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem.

Uniform Title

Mendiant de Jérusalem. English

Alternative Title

Mendiant de Jérusalem.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Storytelling > Fiction
• Beggars > Fiction
• Jews > Fiction
• American fiction > Jewish authors > 20th century
• American fiction > Jewish authors
• Beggars
• Jews
• Storytelling
• Storytelling > Fiction
• Beggars > Fiction
• Jews > Fiction
• Fiction > 1900-1999 (20th century)
• French literature > 1900-1999 (20th century)
• Literature, Modern > 20th century
• Jerusalem > Fiction
• Middle East > Jerusalem
• Jerusalem (Israel) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Jewish fiction.
• Fiction

Note

• Translation of: Le mendiant de Jérusalem.
• Ex copy 2 is no. 227 of two hundred and fifty copies of the first edition which have been printed on special paper, specially bound, signed by the author, and numbered.
• Ex copy 2 in slipcase.
• Ex copies are gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of President Harold T. Shapiro.

LCCN

79085614

OCLC

• ocm00058221
• 58221
• SCSB-9460024

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library