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Elie Wiesel

By Joseph Berger

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Elie Wiesel

By Joseph Berger

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An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize   Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Biography category   “An indispensable touchstone.”—Julia M. Klein, Forward   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.   Berger explores Wiesel’s Hasidic childhood in Sighet, his postwar years spent rebuilding his life from the ashes in France, his transformation into a Parisian intellectual, his failed attempts at romance, his years scraping together a living in America as a journalist, his decision to marry and have a child, his emergence as a spokesperson for Holocaust survivors and persecuted peoples throughout the world, his lifelong devotion to the state of Israel, and his difficult final years. Through this penetrating portrait we come to know intimately the man the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “a messenger to mankind.”
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
360
Release Date:
2025-03-11
Publication Date:
2025-03-11
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0300281838
ISBN13:
9780300281835
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
358 g
Height:
142 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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