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  <title><![CDATA[The Trial of God]]></title>
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  <default-description>Set in a medieval European village where three itinerant Jewish   actors put God on trial to answer for His silence during a pogrom, a   powerful drama considers historical and especially post-Holocaust   issues surrounding faith. Reprint.</default-description>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elie Wiesel was a boy at Auschwitz when he watched prisoners convene a traditional Hebrew court to try God of breaking his sacred covenant with the Jews. PBS's &quot;Masterpiece Theater&quot; excellently dramatizes the trial in its movie &quot;God on Trial&quot;, which bears strong influence from Wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41405925">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best ending... ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After finishing Jonathan Ames' book <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96038.Wake_Up_Sir_" title="Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames">Wake Up  Sir</a></em> I wanted to read something very different from the current novel style in vogue.  I was scanning my bookshelf and came across this, a play, by Elie Wiesel.  I recalled a friend of mine telling me he really liked it, and it gave him a few things to thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9933157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As always with Wiesel, this book is perfectly planned and executed.  Truly &quot;awe&quot;-ful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The ending was absolutely amazing.  To use Krysten's word, which I find most fitting to properly describe its amazingness, it was epic. The Trial of God is a play and these characters set up a trial against God, with defendants and prosecutors and they basically debate the merits and drawbacks to fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/749454">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book like this should be required reading. How can I possibly critique such a piece. Simply stated: a work such as this could only come out of a sincere sense of what life is and I don't mean life on Earth alone. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Based on a real trial against God that a group of Rabbis put on in a concentration camp. I have thought about this book many times since I read it. ]]></body>
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    <review id="6667274">
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow...that's all I have to say.  I have been meaning to read more of his work, but I just haven't gotten there yet.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A really moving, well written play. It might change the way you think about God/evil/the world. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read a play in ages. This is quite a thought provoking one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intensely profound.]]></body>
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