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To Judge
Or Be Judged

Defining the worth of one's life is a theme
of Elie Wiesel's gripping, newly translated novel.

SAN D EE B RAWARS KY
Special to the Jewish News

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2002 • 3:00 P.M.

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Five Lives

The novel begins with the five sur-
vivors getting comfortable indoors as
the snow continues to rage outside.
Theirs was the seventh carload taken
from the site of the plane's emergency
landing, and the only one brought to
this destination.
The survivors enjoy the warmth,
light and kindness extended by their
host but soon realize their sense of

fter their flight to Israel is
forced to land in rural
Connecticut in the midst of
a violent snowstorm, five
passengers are brought to a log cabin
in Elie Wiesel's latest novel, The Judges
(Knopf; $36).
Over the course of a long evening,
they shift from being rescued
survivors to prisoners, com-
pelled to play roles in an
unfolding drama they would
have preferred to skip.
The Judges was published
for the first time in English
this year, in the days leading
up to the High Holidays, a
time when many people turn
ELIE
their thoughts to taking stock
of their lives and consider
their deeds over the last year.
It's a time of concern for
THE
being judged and judging
oneself, both themes of the
Judges
novel.
Although The Judges was
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originally published in France
in 1999, its setting seems par-
ticularly timely this year, in
these days of terrorist threats
and actions, hostage taking
and very real fears of death at
"The Judges" poses philosophical, religious
the hands of madmen. The
and moral questions.
moral questions the Nobel
laureate raises in the novel are
timeless.
security is misplaced, that he might be
Wiesel, whose more than 40 books
the source of their danger.
include works of fiction and nonfic-
Without revealing his name, he
tion as well as books for children, has
introduces himself as a judge. "Tonight
been awarded the Presidential Medal
I will be your judge," he says.
of Freedom, the United States
"Five lives, five stories had come
Congressional Gold Medal and the
together in a strange convergence," the
French Legion of Honor, along with
narrator relates.
the Nobel Prize. This is his first novel
They include an attractive, self-confi-
in several years.
Artfully written, The Judges is a grip- dent New York woman on her way to
meet a man she loves; a philanderer, for
ping story. Wiesel's prose is distinctive,
whom life was a game, who had previ-
with sentences that are full of literary
ously been headed for the priesthood;
style and sacred resonance. For the
an archivist en route to deliver a secret
reader, the novel's wrestling with
document directly linking a leading
philosophical ideas will linger.

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