{"product_id":"the-trial-of-god-as-it-was-held-on-february-25-1649-in-shamgorod-paperback","title":"The Trial of God: (As It Was Held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElie Wiesel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA Play by Elie Wiesel\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Marion Wiesel\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Robert McAfee Brown\u003cbr\u003eAfterword by Matthew Fox\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere is God when innocent human beings suffer? This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the moral imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSet in a Ukranian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids. When three itinerant actors arrive in town to perform a Purim play, Berish demands that they stage a mock trial of God instead, indicting Him for His silence in the face of evil. Berish, a latter-day Job, is ready to take on the role of prosecutor. But who will defend God? A mysterious stranger named Sam, who seems oddly familiar to everyone present, shows up just in time to volunteer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe idea for this play came from an event that Elie Wiesel witnessed as a boy in Auschwitz: \"Three rabbis--all erudite and pious men--decided one evening to indict God for allowing His children to be massacred. I remember: I was there, and I felt like crying. But there nobody cried.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired and challenged by this play, Christian theologians Robert McAfee Brown and Matthew Fox, in a new Introduction and Afterword, join Elie Wiesel in the search for faith in a world where God is silent.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a Ukrainian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIE WIESEL\u003c\/b\u003e was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The author of more than fifty internationally acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, he was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and University Professor at Boston University for forty years. Wiesel died in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 8.01 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757656080672,"sku":"9780805210538","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0498150686d3d8f854fcae07eb7133cb.webp?v=1780107918","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-trial-of-god-as-it-was-held-on-february-25-1649-in-shamgorod-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}