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A 10 page research paper which analyzes the work of the two most preeminent witnesses to the Holocaust-Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi. The writer looks specifically at The Drowned and the Saved by Levi and the Night, Dawn, Day trilogy by Wiesel, and demonstrates that although these two men went through similar experiences, their ultimate orientation to those experiences are extremely different. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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recent years, and Levi has never received the "almost sanctified status accorded to Nobel laureate Wiesel by the world Jewish community and even by many thoughtful Christians" (Rubenstein 408).
Each of these men experienced life in the Nazi concentration camps and survived. Having gone through the same experience, and witnessed the same tortures and atrocities, each reacted to their
experience according to their individual backgrounds and experiences. Therefore, the interpretations which they offer to the world via their books is profoundly different. Levi wrote, "the question which torments
all those who have happened to read our accounts, How much of the concentration camp world is dead and will not return, like slavery and the dueling code? How much
is back or is coming back? What can each of us do so that in this world pregnant with threats at least this threat will be nullified?" (The Drowned and
the Saved 21). While both authors have attempted to answer this question, they eventually come to very different conclusions. These conclusions show that Wiesel sees enough that is good
in the world to continue the struggle to live and Levi does not. This paper will show that a primary reason behind this difference lies in their religious orientation.
Levi and Wiesel came from backgrounds which were completely different. Wiesels background was Eastern European. He, therefore, had a childhood in which he was immersed in traditional Judaism. His experiences
caused him to experience a crisis of faith, to question everything in which he believed. This caused Wiesel to, at times, feel as if he were going mad. Although
Wiesels philosophical disorientation caused him to flirt with madness, he eventually arrived at a reconciliation of sorts with his former beliefs. His work offers hope that there is life beyond
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