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2) Night
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Language
English
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"Wiesel's account of his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust with updated front and back matter to include speeches and essays commemorating his recent death"--
4) The judges
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When their plane from New York to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather, five passengers seek refuge at a nearby house where they encounter their enigmatic host, known only as the Judge, who forces them to confront the reality and meaning of their lives.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1958, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of their battle for survival and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day. In the short novel Dawn (1960), a young man who has survived World War II and settled in Palestine joins a Jewish underground movement and is...
7) Open heart
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflected on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.
11) The oath
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
An old Jew who has, for more than fifty years, kept an oath of silence about the fate of his village in Eastern Europe breaks it to save the life of a young stranger.
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is the evening before the holiday of Purim, and the Nazis have given the ghetto’s leaders twenty-four hours to turn over ten Jews to be hanged to “avenge” the deaths of the ten sons of Haman, the villain of the Purim story, which celebrates the triumph of the Jews of Persia over potential genocide some 2,400 years ago. If the leaders refuse, the entire ghetto will be liquidated. Terrified, they go to the ghetto’s rabbi for advice; he tells...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, Talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis, from one of the world's most honored and beloved teachers. From a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history -- from the Kingdom of Israel in the ninth century B.C.E. to nineteenth-century Eastern Europe. Here is the prophet Elisha, the beloved...
15) Dawn
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Series
Language
English
Description
Two men wait through the night in British-controlled Palestine for dawn - and for death. One is a captured English officer. The other is Elisha, a young Israeli freedom fighter whose assignment is to kill the officer in reprisal for Britain's execution of a Jewish prisoner. Elisha's past is the nightmare memory of Nazi death camps. He is the only surviving member of his family. His future is a cherished dream of life in the promised homeland. But...
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Language
English
Description
When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believing his eyes and ears, and above all, his memory." This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western...
Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Wiesel relates his many encounters with Jewish people or those who had an impact on modern Jewish life as he travels in the post-WWII world. His stories include a young Catholic man struggling with ancestral documentation of his Jewish heritage, the notorious Auschwitz guard whom he meets on a Tel Aviv bus, and the rabbi who fasted on Yom Kippur to confront God's response to the Holocaust.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As an orphaned survivor and witness to the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) compelled the world to confront the Holocaust with his searing memoir Night. How did this soft-spoken man from a small Carpathian town become such an influential figure on the world stage? Drawing on Wiesel's prodigious literary output and interviews with his family, friends, scholars, and critics, Joseph Berger seeks to answer this question.
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