Yosl Rakover Talks to God (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375708404)

There are two stories here. One is the now legendary tale of a defiant Jew's refusal to abandon God, even in the face of the greatest suffering the world has known, a testament of faith that has taken on an unpredictable and fascinating life of its own and has often been thought to be a direct testament from the Holocaust.

The parallel story is that of Zvi Kolitz, the true author, whose connection to Yosl Rakover has been obscured over the fifty years since its original appearance. German journalist Paul Badde tells how a young man came to write this classic response to evil, and then was nearly written out of its history. With brief commentaries by French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and Leon Wieseltier, author of Kaddish, this edition presents a religious classic and the very human story behind it.

Author: Zvi Kolitz
ISBN-10: 0375708405
ISBN-13: 9780375708404
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2000
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.36d