The Book And The Sword: A Life Of Learning In The Shadow Of Destruction
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Book
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ISBN 10
0813334659
ISBN 13
9780813334653
Category
NON-FICTION
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Westview Press, Canada
Pages
208
Subject
Halivni, Daṿid.; Jews --Romania --Sighetu Marmat̨iei --Biography.; Holocaust survivors --New York (State) --New York --Biography.; Jewish scholars --New York (State) --New York --Biography.
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Abstract
The words of the Talmud were the universe for David Weiss Halivni during his childhood in Sighet, in the Carpathian Mountains. Before he was five he began his studies; by the time he was ten he had outgrown the town's teachers and started to learn at home with his scholarly, impoverished grandfather. Even before his ordination at the age of fifteen, in 1943, he was famous for his erudition. But when the Nazis crushed the Jewish community of the Carpathians in 1944, he closed his Talmud. Halivni taught in the concentration camps and risked his life to save a scrap of paper from a sacred book. But adherence to the fundamentalist worldview that insists on reconciling every apparent contradiction in the texttroubling to him even as a childhad become impossible for him now.
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