Night

Night PDF Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 9780374534752
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Born in Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's seminal work.

Witness

Witness PDF Author: Ariel Burger
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 1328802698
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
"In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protaegae and friend of one of the world's great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher"--

One Generation After

One Generation After PDF Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805207139
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Twenty years after he and his family were deported from Sighet to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel returned to his town in search of the watch—a bar mitzvah gift—he had buried in his backyard before they left.

Five Biblical Portraits

Five Biblical Portraits PDF Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268207305
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Nobel Peace Prize–winner Elie Wiesel brings ancient religious leaders to literary life, framing his commentary with pressing and enduring questions as a survivor and witness to the Holocaust. Five Biblical Portraits represents an old-new approach to Jewish textual commentary. This sequel to Elie Wiesel’s Messengers of God continues the work done in that volume of bringing religious figures to life and studying their place both in the text and in our lives. Wiesel reflects on his own life as well as the tragedy of the Holocaust as he discusses each figure and adds personal framing and insight into the religious study. Through sensitive readings of the scriptures as well as the Talmudic and Hasidic sources, Wiesel illuminates Joshua, Elijah, Saul, Jeremiah, and Jonah. He seeks not simple answers but fully complex responses to the crucial questions of human suffering as he examines each religious figure in turn. Originally published in 1981, this new edition of Five Biblical Portraits includes a new text design, cover, and an introduction by Ariel Burger, which examines how Wiesel’s post-Holocaust Midrash teaches us not only how to read the Bible but also how to read the world.

The Judges

The Judges PDF Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307428796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
From Elie Wiesel, a gripping novel of guilt, innocence, and the perilousness of judging both. A plane en route from New York to Tel Aviv is forced down by bad weather. A nearby house provides refuge for five of its passengers: Claudia, who has left her husband and found new love; Razziel, a religious teacher who was once a political prisoner; Yoav, a terminally ill Israeli commando; George, an archivist who is hiding a Holocaust secret that could bring down a certain politician; and Bruce, a would-be priest turned philanderer. Their host—an enigmatic and disquieting man who calls himself simply the Judge—begins to interrogate them, forcing them to face the truth and meaning of their lives. Soon he announces that one of them—the least worthy—will die. The Judges is a powerful novel that reflects the philosophical, religious, and moral questions that are at the heart of Elie Wiesel’s work.

Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel PDF Author: Robert McAfee Brown
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268160635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Upon presenting the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace to Elie Wiesel, Egil Aarvick, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, hailed him as "a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge but with one of brotherhood and atonement." Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity, first published in 1983, echoes this theme and still affirms that message, a call to both Christians and Jews to face the tragedy of the Holocaust and begin again.

After the Darkness

After the Darkness PDF Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 56

Book Description
Bears witness to the events and horrors of the Holocaust.

Night

Night PDF Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

All Rivers Run to the Sea

All Rivers Run to the Sea PDF Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0307760081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 465

Book Description
In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle, to his emergence as a witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors and for the State of Israel, and as a spokesman for humanity. With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs. "From the abyss of the death camps Wiesel has come as a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge, but with one of brotherhood and atonement." --From the citation for the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

Dawn

Dawn PDF Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1466821167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Elie Wiesel's Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings. "The author . . . has built knowledge into artistic fiction." —The New York Times Book Review Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. The basis for the 2014 film of the same name, now available on streaming and home video.