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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016, author.     Subjects     Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poetry.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016, author.       by title:      The tale of a niggun...         MARC Display

The tale of a niggun / Elie Wiesel ; illustrations by Mark Podwal ; introduction by Elisha Wiesel. by Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016, author. New York : Schocken Books, [2020] Subjects Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poetry. ISBN:  9780805243635 (hardcover) : 0805243631 (hardcover) : Description:  viii, 48 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Based on an actual event that occurred during World War II, this heartbreaking narrative poem about history, immortality, and the power of song is accompanied by magnificent full-color paintings by award-winning artist Mark Podwal. It is the evening before the holiday of Purim, and the Nazis have given the ghetto's leaders twenty-four hours to turn over ten Jews to be hung to "avenge" the deaths of the ten sons of Haman, the villain of the Purim story, which celebrates the triumph of the Jews of Persia over potential genocide some 2,400 years ago. If they refuse, the entire ghetto will be liquidated. The terrified leaders go to the ghetto's rabbi for advice; he tells them to return the next morning. Over the course of the night the rabbi calls up the spirits of rabbis from centuries past for advice; each is rendered speechless by what the rabbi describes. The 18th century mystic and founder of Hasidism, the Ba'al Shem Tov, tries to intercede with God by singing a niggun, a wordless, joyful melody with the power to break the chains of evil, but his efforts end in failure. Then the beloved Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev appears. There is only one possible response, he says. And the ghetto rabbi agrees. That evening, everyone in the ghetto is herded into the synagogue courtyard. When no one steps forward, they are informed that in an hour they will all be killed. How does one prepare to die? The question is laid before the ghetto rabbi, and he teaches them the song that the Ba'al Shem Tov taught him the night before. As their voices soar upward, they are joined by Jews from centuries past from all over the world, all singing the Ba'al Shem Tov's niggun as the massacre begins. And as the souls of these men, women, and children rise to the heavens, their song continues, uninterrupted, to the end of time and beyond"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 841.914 Wi   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 841.914 Wi   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 841.914 Wiesel   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 841.914 Wi   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 841.914 Wi Katz Collection Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 841.914 Wi   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 841.914 Wi   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library Adult Nonfiction 841.914 Wi   Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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