Night
Title | Night PDF eBook |
Author | Elie Wiesel |
Publisher | Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 2013-09-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780374534752 |
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.
One Generation After
Title | One Generation After PDF eBook |
Author | Elie Wiesel |
Publisher | Schocken |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 1987-09-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0805207139 |
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.
Witness
Title | Witness PDF eBook |
Author | Ariel Burger |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1328802698 |
"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"--
Elie Wiesel
Title | Elie Wiesel PDF eBook |
Author | Steven T. Katz |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 2013-05-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0253008123 |
“Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel’s interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more.” —Publishers Weekly Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and experience. In this volume, leading scholars in the fields of Biblical, Rabbinic, Hasidic, Holocaust, and literary studies offer fascinating and innovative analyses of Wiesel’s texts as well as enlightening commentaries on his considerable influence as a teacher and as a moral voice for human rights. By exploring the varied aspects of Wiesel’s multifaceted career—his texts on the Bible, the Talmud, and Hasidism as well as his literary works, his teaching, and his testimony—this thought-provoking volume adds depth to our understanding of the impact of this important man of letters and towering international figure. “This book reveals Elie Wiesel’s towering intellectual capacity, his deeply held spiritual belief system, and the depth of his emotional makeup.” —New York Journal of Books “Close, scholarly readings of a master storyteller’s fiction, memoirs and essays suggest his uncommon breadth and depth . . . Criticism that enhances the appreciation of readers well-versed in the author’s work.” —Kirkus Reviews “Navigating deftly among Wiesel’s varied scholarly and literary works, the authors view his writings from religious, social, political, and literary perspectives in highly accessible prose that will well serve a broad and diverse readership.” —S. Lillian Kremer author of Women’s Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination
All Rivers Run to the Sea
Title | All Rivers Run to the Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Elie Wiesel |
Publisher | Schocken |
Total Pages | 465 |
Release | 1996-10-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0805210288 |
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
Night
Title | Night PDF eBook |
Author | Elie Wiesel |
Publisher | Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2006-01-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.
After the Darkness
Title | After the Darkness PDF eBook |
Author | Elie Wiesel |
Publisher | Schocken |
Total Pages | 56 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Bears witness to the events and horrors of the Holocaust.