Gog and Magog : A Novel

by Buber, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780815605898
• ISBN10: 0815605897
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

Religious novel in which the heroes are the Hasidic Rabbis of the eighteenth-and-nineteenth century Poland. The action of the book centers about the philosophic & religious problems of the Jewish life at the beginning of the Napoleonic wars.

Table of Contents

THE FIRST PART	1	(142)
The ``Seer''	3	(4)
Midnight	7	(6)
The Wagoner	13	(7)
David of Lelov Tells a Tale	20	(8)
The Table	28	(12)
The Sermon Concerning Gog	40	(9)
The Questing Disciples	49	(5)
Parallels	54	(10)
The Shirt	64	(5)
The Game Begins	69	(6)
The Rebbitzin	75	(3)
The Heart	78	(3)
Prayer	81	(3)
Goldele in Lublin	84	(5)
Eagles and Crows	89	(7)
The Heavenly Letter	96	(2)
Farewell	98	(5)
The Address to the Sixty	103	(6)
Outbreak	109	(6)
Confirmation	115	(7)
A Dream	122	(2)
The Shadow of Elimelech	124	(7)
Of Death and Life	131	(3)
Leave of Absence	134	(3)
Bunam and the Seer	137	(6)
THE SECOND PART	143	(146)
Notations	145	(5)
The Blessing	150	(5)
Trouble Within and Without	155	(7)
Armageddon	162	(11)
Father and Son	173	(5)
Visitors	178	(8)
The Door Knob	186	(5)
The Child	191	(3)
The Beaker	194	(1)
Kosnitz in 1805	195	(9)
Children Go, Children Stay	204	(9)
The Language of the Birds	213	(6)
Between Lublin and Rymanov	219	(6)
A New Face	225	(3)
Vision	228	(2)
The Answer of the Yehudi	230	(2)
David of Lelov Interposes	232	(4)
The Woman at the Cradle	236	(1)
Mourning and Consolation	237	(3)
Conflict	240	(2)
Messages	242	(4)
The Great Journey	246	(11)
Candles in the Wind	257	(1)
Kosnitz and Napoleon	258	(7)
Concerning the Telling of Parables	265	(5)
A Seder that Went Wrong	270	(7)
Feast of the New Moon	277	(2)
The Last Time	279	(2)
Perez	281	(1)
The Yehudi Obeys	281	(4)
A Conversation	285	(1)
Lament in Lublin	286	(1)
The Laughter of David of Lelov	286	(3)
EPILOGUE	289	(26)
Between Lublin and Kosnitz	291	(5)
The Maggid Withdraws	296	(2)
The Day of Rejoicing	298	(4)
The End of the Chronicle	302	(13)
Glossary	315