Nov 22, 2008

A Beggar in Jerusalem | A Beggar in Jerusalem

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Author: Elie Wiesel
First Published: 1968
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
Time of Work: 1967
Setting: Jerusalem
Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
Subjects: 1960’s, Jews or Jewish life, Storytelling, Soldiers, Israel or Israelis, Israel-Arab War
Locales: Jerusalem

Characters Discussed

David ben Sarah, a wanderer and first- person narrator of the novel. A survivor of the Holocaust, the forty-year-old David is rebellious and skeptical of any value in a world that has lost its innocence. He is filled with memories of his childhood and spends much of his time exchanging tales and testimonies with a group of beggars in Jerusalem. At the outbreak of the Six-Day War, he joins a tank unit commanded by an old friend. Soon after meeting Katriel, another member of the unit, David makes a pact with him that if one of them should survive the war, he...

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A Beggar in Jerusalem | A Beggar in Jerusalem

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