King Solomon and His Magic Ring
by Elie Wiesel
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Recounts some of the stories of the wisdom and folly in the life of the legendary King Solomon.Tags
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A collection of wonder tales, based on Talmud and Midrash, featuring angels, demons, flying carpets, and conversations with animals.
The note on sources mentions The Book of Legends by Bialik and Rawnitsky and volumes 4 and 6 of The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg.
The book is a collection of stories and Midrashim about King Solomon:
The Angel Michael gave Solomon a ring that agave him power "over everything from spirits and animals to the wind." (p. 14)
The story of Solomon being bested by an ant ends with "A truly wise person knows when to listen and when to be silent." (p. 20)
The stones to build Solomon's Temple could not be made of iron, since it is used for weapons, and so the shamir was used to split them. (p. 32) Other versions of this story go into much greater detail about how Solomon acquired the shamir.
Colorful illustrations.
The book is a collection of stories and Midrashim about King Solomon:
The Angel Michael gave Solomon a ring that agave him power "over everything from spirits and animals to the wind." (p. 14)
The story of Solomon being bested by an ant ends with "A truly wise person knows when to listen and when to be silent." (p. 20)
The stones to build Solomon's Temple could not be made of iron, since it is used for weapons, and so the shamir was used to split them. (p. 32) Other versions of this story go into much greater detail about how Solomon acquired the shamir.
Colorful illustrations.
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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. In 1944, he and his family were deported along with other Jews to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. His mother and his younger sister died there. He loaded stones onto railway cars in a labor camp called Buna before being sent to Buchenwald, where his father died. He was show more liberated by the United States Third Army on April 11, 1945. After the war ended, he learned that his two older sisters had also survived. He was placed on a train of 400 orphans that was headed to France, where he was assigned to a home in Normandy under the care of a Jewish organization. He was educated at the Sorbonne and supported himself as a tutor, a Hebrew teacher and a translator. He started writing for the French newspaper L'Arche. In 1948, L'Arche sent him to Israel to report on that newly founded state. He also became the Paris correspondent for the daily Yediot Ahronot. In this capacity, he interviewed the novelist Francois Mauriac, who urged him to write about his war experiences. The result was La Nuit (Night). After the publication of Night, Wiesel became a writer, literary critic, and journalist. His other books include Dawn, The Accident, The Gates of the Forest, The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry, and Twilight. He received a numerous awards and honors for his literary work including the William and Janice Epstein Fiction Award in 1965, the Jewish Heritage Award in 1966, the Prix Medicis in 1969, and the Prix Livre-International in 1980. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his work in combating human cruelty and in advocating justice. He had a leading role in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C. He died on July 2, 2016 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Le Roi Salomon et sa bague magique
- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- King Solomon; Angel Michael
- Dedication
- c. 1 The Starr - Weg Family
c. 2 Joe Haberer
For Elisha, Always ---E.W.
For Susan Hirschman ---M.P. - First words
- Come, children. Come and listen.I want to share with you strange yet marvelous tales of a very great king whom the world admired. Only the demons were jealous of him . . . .
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