The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in

The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)

The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)
A Play by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Marion Wiesel
Introduction by Robert McAfee Brown
Afterword by Matthew Fox
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Where is God when innocent human beings suffer? This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the moral imagination.
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Set 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.
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The idea for this play came from an event that Elie Wiesel witnessed as a boy in Auschwitz: â€œThree rabbisâ€”all erudite and pious menâ€”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.â€
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Inspired 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.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Schocken
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-05-08
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Schocken
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-05-08
Format	Kindle eBook

The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)

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