Abstract
Elie Wiesel's“purpose is not to negate the old tales [of Hasidic rabbis] and their pious interpretations, but to show, without endorsing them, their loveliness and inner coherence, and to prove to us that Hasidism in a confrontation with the philosophy of despair can hold its own–not necessarily in truth (he delicately avoids this point) but in majestic picturesqueness.”
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