Abstract
In her article "Akedah, the Holocaust, and the Limits of the Law in Roth's 'Eli, the Fanatic'" Aimee L. Pozorski argues that Philip Roth's 1957 short story dramatizes the tension between the law on the one hand and the philosophy of ethics, on the other hand with the story's protagonist ultimately choosing ethics as evidenced by his identification with a displaced Hasidic Jew near the story's end. In reading the story through the inter-textual references to the Genesis story of the Akedah, Pozorski discusses the limits of the law in the face of vulnerable children and within the context of the history of the Holocaust.
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Pozorski, Aimee L.
"Akedah, the Holocaust, and the Limits of the Law in Roth's "Eli, the Fanatic"."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
16.2
(2014):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2405>
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