title: The Book and the Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction
author: David Weiss Halivni
description: Romanian-born Halivni (Sources and Traditions), who hails from the same village, Sighet, as Elie Wiesel, with whom he became friends after the war, comments that "There is no dearth of memoirs by survivors" of the Holocaust, which he calls "an event without explanation." Halivni began his studies of the Talmud at the age of five and was considered a prodigy. The only member of his immediate family to survive WWII, he eventually settled in the U.S., where he became a Talmudic scholar and teacher at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and eventually was made a professor of religion at Columbia University. His reason for writing his memoirs now is "to define myself spiritually in the light of the Holocaust." Remembering the suffering of the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis, he maintains, is an "act of defiance," because the aim of the Hitler regime was to wipe out European Jewry. This searching, honest work, told with passion but no sentimentality, will speak to those who have sought to maintain a belief in God despite evils witnessed in this life. <br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # Revik
  
  
  ### A Bridge & Sword Prequel
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## JC Andrijeski
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by JC Andrijeski
  
  
  Published by White Sun Press
  
  
  Cover Art & Design by [Damonza.com](http://Damonza.com) (2019)
  
  
  
  
  
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  In Memory of Chris Al-Aswad (1979-2010)
  
  
  Who knew, better than anyone
  
  
  That there are always moments of clarity
  
  
  Even in the darkest of times.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Synopsis](part0004_split_000.htm