Background
Wiesel, Elie Eliezer was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania. Arrived in Paris, 1945. Came to United States, 1956, naturalized, 1963.
Son of Shlomo and Sarah (Feig) Wiesel.
(In Wise Men and Their Tales, a master teacher gives us hi...)
In Wise Men and Their Tales, a master teacher gives us his fascinating insights into the lives of a wide range of biblical figures, Talmudic scholars, and Hasidic rabbis. The matriarch Sarah, fiercely guarding her son, Isaac, against the negative influence of his half-brother Ishmael; Samson, the solitary hero and protector of his people, whose singular weakness brought about his tragic end; Isaiah, caught in the middle of the struggle between God and man, his messages of anger and sorrow counterbalanced by his timeless, eloquent vision of a world at peace; the saintly Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, who by virtue of a lifetime of good deeds was permitted to enter heaven while still alive and who tried to ensure a similar fate for all humanity by stealing the sword of the Angel of Death. Elie Wiesel tells the stories of these and other men and women who have been sent by God to help us find the godliness within our own lives. And what interests him most about these people is their humanity, in all its glorious complexity. They get angry—at God for demanding so much, and at people, for doing so little. They make mistakes. They get frustrated. But through it all one constant remains—their love for the people they have been charged to teach and their devotion to the Supreme Being who has sent them. In these tales of battles won and lost, of exile and redemption, of despair and renewal, we learn not only by listening to what they have come to tell us, but by watching as they live lives that are both grounded in earthly reality and that soar upward to the heavens. From the Hardcover edition.
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(For Centuries, Jews have remembered the Golem, a creature...)
For Centuries, Jews have remembered the Golem, a creature of clay said to have been given life by the mystical incantations of the mysterious Maharal, Rabbi Yehuda Loew, leader of the Jewish community of 16-century Prague... In this beautiful book, Elie Wiesel has collected many of the legends associated with this enigmatic and eluisive figure and retold them as seen throughn the eyes of a wizened gravedigger who claims to have witnessed as a child the numerous miracles that legend attributes to the Golem...
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(Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees C...)
Gamaliel Friedman is only a child when his family flees Czechoslovakia in 1939 for the relative safety of Hungary. For him, it will be the beginning of a life of rootlessness, disguise, and longing. Five years later, in desperation, Gamaliel’s parents entrust him to a young Christian cabaret singer named Ilonka. With his Jewish identity hidden, Gamaliel survives the war. But in 1956, to escape the stranglehold of communism, he leaves Budapest after painfully parting from Ilonka. Gamaliel tries, unsuccessfully, to find a place for himself in Europe. After a failed marriage, he moves to New York, where he works as a ghostwriter, living through the lives of others. Eventually he falls in with a group of exiles, including a rabbi––a mystic whose belief in the potential for grace in everyday life powerfully counters Gamaliel’s feelings of loss and dispossession. When Gamaliel is asked to help draw out an elderly, disfigured Hungarian woman who may be his beloved Ilonka, he begins to understand that a real life in the present is possible only if he will reconcile with his past.
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(Now in paperback, Wiesel’s newest novel “reminds us, with...)
Now in paperback, Wiesel’s newest novel “reminds us, with force, that his writing is alive and strong. The master has once again found a startling freshness.”—Le Monde des Livres A European expatriate living in New York, Doriel suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of the Resistance, survived World War II only to die soon after in France in an accident, together with his father. Doriel was a hidden child during the war, and his knowledge of the Holocaust is largely limited to what he finds in movies, newsreels, and books. Doriel’s parents and their secrets haunt him, leaving him filled with longing but unable to experience the most basic joys in life. He plunges into an intense study of Judaism, but instead of finding solace, he comes to believe that he is possessed by a dybbuk. Surrounded by ghosts, spurred on by demons, Doriel finally turns to Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt, a psychoanalyst who finds herself particularly intrigued by her patient. The two enter into an uneasy relationship based on exchange: of dreams, histories, and secrets. And despite Doriel’s initial resistance, Dr. Goldschmidt helps bring him to a crossroads—and to a shocking denouement. “In its own high-stepping yet paradoxically heart-wracking way, Wiesel’s novel can most assuredly be considered beautiful (almost beyond belief).”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
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( In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent ...)
In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach Jews who had never been placed in the Soviet show window by Soviet authorities,” wrote Wiesel. “They alone, in their anonymity, could describe the conditions under which they live; they alone could tell whether the reports I had heard were true or false—and whether their children and their grandchildren, despite everything, still wish to remain Jews. From them I would learn what we must do to help . . . or if they want our help at all.” What he discovered astonished him: Jewish men and women, young and old, in Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, Vilna, Minsk, and Tbilisi, completely cut off from the outside world, overcoming their fear of the ever-present KGB to ask Wiesel about the lives of Jews in America, in Western Europe, and, most of all, in Israel. They have scant knowledge of Jewish history or current events; they celebrate Jewish holidays at considerable risk and with only the vaguest ideas of what these days commemorate. “Most of them come to synagogue not to pray,” Wiesel writes, “but out of a desire to identify with the Jewish people—about whom they know next to nothing.” Wiesel promises to bring the stories of these people to the outside world. And in the home of one dissident, he is given a gift—a Russian-language translation of Night, published illegally by the underground. “‘My God,’ I thought, ‘this man risked arrest and prison just to make my writing available to people here!’ I embraced him with tears in my eyes.”
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(Gregor—a teenaged boy, the lone survivor of his family—is...)
Gregor—a teenaged boy, the lone survivor of his family—is hiding from the Germans in the forest. He hides in a cave, where he meets a mysterious stranger who saves his life. He hides in the village, posing as a deaf-mute peasant boy. He hides among the partisans of the Jewish resistance. But where, he asks, is God hiding? And where can one find redemption in a world that God has abandoned? In a story punctuated by friendship and fear, sacrifice and betrayal, Gregor's wartime wanderings take us deep into the ghost-filled inner world of the survivor.
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(Twenty-five portraits of figures from the Jewish traditio...)
Twenty-five portraits of figures from the Jewish tradition explore the mysteries of Jewish existence and themes of humility, silence, loyalty, and truth.
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(From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the...)
From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz to his life as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Elie Wiesel tells his story. Passionate and poignant, All Rivers Run to the Sea is an unforgettable book of love and rage, doubt and faith, despair and trust, and ultimately, of wisdom. of photos.
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( Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literatur...)
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 commanded to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage. In Day (previously titled The Accident, 1961), Wiesel questions the limits of conscience: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life despite their memories? Wiesel's trilogy offers insights on mankind's attraction to violence and on the temptation of self-destruction.
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(A series of interviews between Wiesel and French journali...)
A series of interviews between Wiesel and French journalist Phillipe de Saint-Cheron, "Evil and Exile" probes some of the issues which confront humankind today. Having survived the evil of the holocaust, Wiesel remained silent for ten years before dedicating his life to the memory of this tragedy, witnessing tirelessly to remind an often indifferent world of its potential for self-destruction. Wiesel offers counsel in this volume concerning evil and suffering, life and death, chance and circumstance. Moreover, the dialogue evokes candid and often surprising responses by Wiesel on the Palestinian problem, Judeo-Christian relations, recent changes in the Soviet Union as well as insights into writers such as Kafka, Malraux, Mauriac and Unamuno.
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(Twenty years after he and his family were deported from S...)
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.
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(In this book, the reader can share their thoughts on into...)
In this book, the reader can share their thoughts on intolerance, anti-Semitism and what can be done to end this longest surviving for of bigotry that has brought suffering and destruction to millions of ordinary people. Their thoughtful and passionate words explore the issue and their hopes for the future.
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(Reuven Tamiroff, a Holocaust survivor, has never been abl...)
Reuven Tamiroff, a Holocaust survivor, has never been able to speak about his past to his son, a young man who yearns to understand his father’s silence. As campuses burn amidst the unrest of the Sixties and his own generation rebels, the son is drawn to his father’s circle of wartime friends in search of clues to the past. Finally discovering that his brooding father has been haunted for years by his role in the murder of a brutal SS officer just after the war, young Tamiroff learns that the Nazi is still alive. Haunting, poetic, and very contemporary, The Fifth Son builds to an unforgettable climax as the son sets out to complete his father’s act of revenge.
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(SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, LEATHER BOUND. Hardcover without j...)
SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, LEATHER BOUND. Hardcover without jacket as issued. 210 Pages. The Franklin Library Limited Edition. Privately Printed Exclusively for Members of The Signed First Edition Society. Fully Bound in Leather with Satin Ribbon Bookmark. Elegantly Blocked in 22-Kt Gold with Marbled Endpapers. All-Gilded Edges and Raised Spine Bands. Letter from Publisher laid in. An Extraordinary Collector's Edition. First Edition 1985. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on Front Flyleaf.
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(In Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Master...)
In Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters, Elie Wiesel reenters, like an impassioned pilgrim, the universe of Hasidism. "When I am asked about my Jewish affiliation, I define myself as a Hasid, " writes the author. "Hasid I was, Hasid I remain." Yet Souls on Fire is not a simple chronological history of Hasidism, nor is it a comprehensive book on its subject. Rather, Elie Wiesel has captured the essence of Hasidism through tales, legends, parables, sayings, and deeply personal reflections. His book is a testimony, not a study. Hasidism is revealed from within and not analyzed from the outside. "Listen attentively, " Elie Wiesel's grandfather told him, "and above all, remember that true tales are meant to be transmitted - to keep them to oneself is to betray them." As a critic appearing on the front page of The New York Times Book Review has written, "The judgment has been offered before: Elie Wiesel is one of the great writers of this generation." Wiesel does not merely tell us, but draws, with the hand of a master, the portraits of the leaders of the movement that created a revolution in the Jewish world. Souls on Fire is a loving, personal affirmation of Judaism, written with words and with silence. The author brings his profound knowledge of the Bible, the Talmud, Kabbala, and the Hasidic tale and song to this masterpiece, showing us that Elie Wiesel is perhaps our generation's most fervid "soul on fire."
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(In Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Master...)
In Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters, Elie Wiesel reenters, like an impassioned pilgrim, the universe of Hasidism. "When I am asked about my Jewish affiliation, I define myself as a Hasid, " writes the author. "Hasid I was, Hasid I remain". Yet Souls on Fire is not a simple chronological history of Hasidism, nor is it a comprehensive book on its subject. Rather, Elie Wiesel has captured the essence of Hasidism through tales, legends, parables, sayings, and deeply personal reflections. His book is a testimony, not a study. Hasidism is revealed from within and not analyzed from the outside. "Listen attentively, " Elie Wiesel's grandfather told him, "and above all, remember that true tales are meant to be transmitted - to keep them to oneself is to betray them". As a critic appearing on the front page of The New York Times Book Review has written, "The judgment has been offered before: Elie Wiesel is one of the great writers of this generation". Wiesel does not merely tell us, but draws, with the hand of a master, the portraits of the leaders of the movement that created a revolution in the Jewish world. Souls on Fire is a loving, personal affirmation of Judaism, written with words and with silence. The author brings his profound knowledge of the Bible, the Talmud, Kabbala, and the Hasidic tale and song to this masterpiece, showing us that Elie Wiesel is perhaps our generation's most fervid "soul on fire".
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( Elie Wiesel brings Joshua, Saul, Elijah, Jeremiah, and ...)
Elie Wiesel brings Joshua, Saul, Elijah, Jeremiah, and Jonah to literary life through sensitive readings of the scriptures as well as through analysis of Talmudic and Hasidic sources.
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(In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, l...)
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, letters and diary entries, weaving together all the periods of the author's life -- from his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, New York -- Elie Wiesel, acclaimed as one of the most gifted and sensitive writers of our time, probes, from the particular point of view of his Jewishness, such central moral and political issues as Zionism and the Middle East conflict, Solzhenitsyn and Soviet anti-Semitism, the obligations of American Jews toward Israel, the Holocaust and its cheapening in the media.
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(When the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel....)
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 Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel bids the reader to join him on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem.
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(Wiesel's immensely moving, unforgettable memoir has the s...)
Wiesel's immensely moving, unforgettable memoir has the searing intensity of his novels and autobiographical tales. Before his family was arrested by Nazis in their Romanian village and transported by cattle car to Auschwitz in 1944, the devout, studious future Nobel Peace laureate had plunged into Jewish mysticism, hoping that his Kabbalistic prayers and formulas might ward off impending tragedy. In the concentration camps, he came to know his formerly aloof and deeply loved father, Shlomo, a rabbi, whose death in Buchenwald in 1945 left Wiesel, then 16, numb. Living in a French orphanage, he learned of the deaths of his mother and younger sister, and was reunited with the two sisters who survived. Wiesel, who gradually recovered his religious fervor, wrestles with the problem of having faith in the post-Holocaust era. As a Paris-based journalist aiding the Jewish resistance movement in Palestine, he discovered his calling?to testify to Nazi genocide, to justify his own survival. Moving to New York in the mid-1950s as correspondent for an Israeli paper, he covered civil rights struggles, the Eichmann trial in Israel and the 1967 Six Day War, befriended Golda Meir and David Ben-Gurion and supported persecuted Soviet Jews. His ascetic bachelor existence ended when he fell in love with and married Marion in 1969. He writes also of his formative friendships with Yiddish poet/thinker Abraham Yeoshua Heschel, Talmudic scholars Gershom Scholem and Saul Leiberman and itinerant mystic rabbi Mordechai Rosenbaum ("Shushani"). This haunting, impassioned book will make you cry yet, somehow, leave you renewed, with a cautious hope for humanity's future. Photos. First serial to Parade. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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(Michael—a young man in his thirties, a concentration camp...)
Michael—a young man in his thirties, a concentration camp survivor—makes the difficult trip behind the Iron Curtain to the town of his birth in Hungary. He returns to find and confront “the face in the window”—the real and symbolic faces of all those who stood by and never interfered when the Jews of his town were deported. In an ironic turn of events, he is arrested and imprisoned by secret police as a foreign agent. Here he must confront his own links to humanity in a world still resistant to the lessons of the Holocaust.
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(Portraits of Legends of Hasidic Masters who promoted spir...)
Portraits of Legends of Hasidic Masters who promoted spirituality through internalization of Jewish mysticism as a fundamental aspect of faith.
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(The compassion of Reb Moshe-Leib, the vision of the Seer ...)
The compassion of Reb Moshe-Leib, the vision of the Seer of Lublin, the wisdom of Reb Pinhas, the warmth of the Ba’al Shem Tov, the humor of Reb Naphtali–to their followers these sages appeared as kings, judges, and prophets. They communicated joy and wonder and fervor to the men and women who came to them in the depths of despair. They brought love and compassion to the persecuted Jews of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania. For Jews who felt abandoned and forsaken by God, these Hasidic masters incarnated an irresistible call to help and salvation. The Rebbe combats sorrow with exuberance. He defeats resignation by exalting belief. He creates happiness so as not to yield to the sadness around him. He tells stories to escape the temptations of irreducible silence. It is Elie Wiesel’s unique gift to make the lives and tales of these great teachers as compelling now as they were in a different time and place. In the tradition of Hasidism itself, he leaves others to struggle with questions of justice, mercy, and vengeance, providing us instead with eternal truths and unshakable faith.
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(The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in...)
The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod) A Play by Elie Wiesel Translated by Marion Wiesel Introduction by Robert McAfee Brown Afterword by Matthew Fox Where is God when innocent human beings suffer? This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the moral imagination. Set in a Ukranian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom. Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids. When three itinerant actors arrive in town to perform a Purim play, Berish demands that they stage a mock trial of God instead, indicting Him for His silence in the face of evil. Berish, a latter-day Job, is ready to take on the role of prosecutor. But who will defend God? A mysterious stranger named Sam, who seems oddly familiar to everyone present, shows up just in time to volunteer. The idea for this play came from an event that Elie Wiesel witnessed as a boy in Auschwitz: “Three rabbis—all erudite and pious men—decided one evening to indict God for allowing His children to be massacred. I remember: I was there, and I felt like crying. But there nobody cried.” Inspired and challenged by this play, Christian theologians Robert McAfee Brown and Matthew Fox, in a new Introduction and Afterword, join Elie Wiesel in the search for faith in a world where God is silent.
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(A poignant, powerful distillation of the Holocaust experi...)
A poignant, powerful distillation of the Holocaust experience from the internationally acclaimed writer and Nobel laureate. In his first book, Night, Elie Wiesel described his concentration camp experience, but he has rarely written directly about the Holocaust since then. Now, as the last generation of survivors is passing and a new generation must be introduced to mankind’s darkest hour, Wiesel sums up the most important aspects of Hitler’s years in power and provides a fitting memorial to those who suffered and perished. He writes about the creation of the Third Reich, Western acquiescence, the gas chambers, and memory. He criticizes Churchill and Roosevelt for what they knew and ignored, and he praises little-known Jewish heroes. Augmenting Wiesel’s text are testimonies from survivors, who recall, among other moments and events: the establishment of the Nurembourg Laws, Kristallnacht, transport to the camps, and liberation. With this book—richly illustrated with 45 photographs from the U.S. Holocaust Museum—Wiesel proves once again the ineluctable importance of bearing witness.
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(As a child in Sighet, as a young boy in Auschwitz, as a t...)
As a child in Sighet, as a young boy in Auschwitz, as a teenage displaced person wandering through post-World War II Europe, as a young man at the beginning of his career as a writer, witness, and human-rights activist, Elie Wiesel had haunting, often surreal encounters with a wide range of people—sages, mystics, teachers, and dreamers. In Legends of Our Time, he shares with us some of their stories. On a Tel Aviv bus, Wiesel encounters a notorious Auschwitz barracks chief who forces him to confront past demons that he thought had long since been laid to rest. While traveling through Spain, he is approached by a young Catholic man holding an ancient family document in an unfamiliar language; written in Hebrew in 1492 by the man’s Marrano ancestor, it proudly proclaims to future generations the family’s Jewish origins. Twenty years after being deported from Sighet, Wiesel returns to discover that the only thing missing are the towns 10,000 Jews and the collective memory of their ever having existed. In a Moscow synagogue in the fall on 1967, Wiesel finds a sanctuary filled with young Jews who have miraculously educated themselves in their history and ancient language, who sing Hebrew songs in the street as KGB agents take down names. And from a rabbi in Auschwitz who fasted on Yom Kippur, Wiesel leans that there is more than one way to confront a God who seems to have abandoned His people.
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(In Prague a long time ago, there lived an emperor who bel...)
In Prague a long time ago, there lived an emperor who believed in magic, and a rabbi who, it is said, could perform miracles. The emperor presented the rabbi with an antique spoon, but neither of them could foretell how the rabbi would one day use it. Full-color.
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("One of the great writers of our generation" (The New Rep...)
"One of the great writers of our generation" (The New Republic) weaves together memories of his life before the Holocaust and his great struggle to find meaning afterwards. Included are Wiesel's landmark speeches, among them his powerful testimony at the trial of Klaus Barbie and his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
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(Elie Wiesel’s classic look at Job and seven other Biblica...)
Elie Wiesel’s classic look at Job and seven other Biblical characters as they grapple with their relationship with God and the question of his justice. “Wiesel has never allowed himself to be diverted from the role of witness for the martyred Jews and survivors of the Holocaust, and by extension for all those who through the centuries have asked Job's question: ‘What is God doing and where is His justice?’ Here in a masterful series of mythic portraits, drawing upon Bible tales and the Midrashim (a body of commentary), Wiesel explores ‘the distant and haunting figures that molded him’: Adam, Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Job. With the dramatic invention of a Father Mapple and the exquisite care of a Talmudic scholar, Wiesel interprets the wellsprings of Jewish religious tradition as the many faces of man’s greatness facing the inexplicable. In an intimate relationship with God it is possible to complain, to demand. Adam and Eve in sinning “cried out” against the injustice of their entrapment; Cain assaulted God rather than his brother; and Abraham's agreement to sacrifice his son placed the burden of guilt on Him who demanded it. As for Job, Wiesel concludes that he abdicated his defiance as did the confessing Communists of Stalin’s time to ‘underline the implausibility’ of his trial, and thus become the accuser. Wiesel’s concern with the imponderables of fate seems to move from strength to strength” (Kirkus Reviews).
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(Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Wiesel (First ...)
Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Wiesel (First Edition Softcover) published by Schocken Books, N.Y., 1995, 432 pages in Acceptable Condition. Please see the photos of this book that I posted on the Product Page. Cover has some surface & edge-wear (SEE PHOTO). Text has numberous pages with notes, and underlining (SEE PHOTOS). Spine is firm & uncreased. The back End Sheet has a rip ( a misssing piece) in the upper right-hand corner. A well-used book that is still a good clean (despite the writing) reading copy. A highly revealing self-portrait of the Nobel Laureate from his childhood memories in a traditional loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz and buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle to his emergence as witness for Israel and for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors and most of all as spokesman for humanity. A biblical-like epic of a great man who has turned genocidal tragedy into a life force for world peace. A powerful, inspiring book that is too hard to put down. Prompt shipping.
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Wiesel, Elie Eliezer was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania. Arrived in Paris, 1945. Came to United States, 1956, naturalized, 1963.
Son of Shlomo and Sarah (Feig) Wiesel.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City, 1967. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Marquette University, 1975. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Simmons College, 1976.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Anna Maria College, 1980. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Yale University, 1981. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Wake Forest University, 1985.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Haverford College, 1985. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Capital University, 1986. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Long Island University, 1986.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Paris, 1987. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Connecticut, 1988. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Central Florida, 1988.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Wheeling Jesuit College, 1989. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Wittenberg University, 1989. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1993.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), St. John's University, 1998. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hebrew Union College, 1968. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Manhattanville College, 1972.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Yeshiva University, 1973. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Boston University, 1974. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), College St. Scholastica, 1978.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Wesleyan University, 1979. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Brandeis University, 1980. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Kenyon College, 1982.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hobart/William Smith College, 1982. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Emory University, 1983. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Siena Heights College, 1983.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Florida International University, 1983. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Fairfield University, 1983. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Dropsie College, 1983.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Moravian College, 1983. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Colgate University, 1984. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), State University of New York, Binghamton, 1985.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Lehigh University, 1985. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), College New Rochelle, 1986. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Tufts University, 1986.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Georgetown University, 1986. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hamilton College, 1986. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Rockford College, 1986.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Villanova University, 1987. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), College St. Thomas, 1987. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Denver, 1987.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Walsh College, 1987. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Loyola College, 1987. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Ohio University, 1988.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Concordia College, 1990. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), New York University, 1990. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Fordham University, 1990.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Connecticut College, 1990. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Upsala College, 1991. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Duquesne University, 1991.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Roosevelt University, 1991. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hunter College, 1992. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Susquehanna University, 1992.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), American University, 1992. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Millersville University, 1993. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Gustavus Adolphus College, 1994.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), McGill University, 1994. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Mount Sinai Medical School, 1994. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Spelman College, 1995.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Sacred Heart University, 1995. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Briar Cliff College, 1996. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Clark University, 1996.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Philadelphia College Textiles, 1996. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1997. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University South Florida, 1997.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Florida Atlantic University, 1997. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Rhode Island, 1997. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1997.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), De Paul University, 1997. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Seton Hall University, 1998. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Eckerd College, 1998.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Appalachian State University, 1998. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Merrimack University, 1998. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Gettysburg College, 1998.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Loyola University, 1999. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), St. Norbert College, 1999. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), St. Joseph's University, 2000.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Florida, 2000. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hebrew College, 2001. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Chapman University, 2005.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Israel Institute of Technology, 2005. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Snow College, 2006. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Dartmouth College, 2006.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Cabrini College, 2006. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Vermont, 2007. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Bar-Ilan University, 1973.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Haifa, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Ben Gurion University, 1988. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Hebrew University, 2000.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Bologna, 2000. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Hofstra University, 1975. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Talmudic University Florida, 1979.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Notre Dame, 1980. Doctor of Laws (honorary), La Salle University, 1988. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Bates College, 1995.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Guelph, 1997. HHD (honorary), University Hartford, 1985. HHD (honorary), Lycoming College, 1987.
HHD (honorary), University Miami, 1988. HHD (honorary), Brigham Young University, 1989. HHD (honorary), Michigan State University, 1999.
HHD (honorary), McDaniel College, 2005. Doctor (honorary), University Dayton, 1993. Doctor (honorary), University Michigan, 1993.
Doctor (honorary), University Bordeaux, 1993. Doctor (honorary), University Buenos Aires, 1995. Doctor (honorary), Cedar Crest College, 1998.
Doctor (honorary), University Montreal, 1999. Doctor (honorary), University Paris, 2001. Doctor of Education (honorary), Regis University, 2001.
Doctor of Education (honorary), Stockton College, 2003. Doctor of Education (honorary), Meredith College, 2003. Doctor of Education (honorary), Old Dominion University, 2003.
Doctor of Education (honorary), Elon University, 2004. Doctor of Education (honorary), Case Western Reserve University, 2004. Doctor of Hebrew Letters (honorary), Spertus College Judaica, 1973.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Chicago Medical School, 1989.
Distinguished professor Judaic studies City College of New York, 1972-1976. Andrew W. Mellon professor in the humanities Boston University, since 1976, University professor, professor religious studies, since 1976, professor philosophy, since 1988. Distinguished visiting professor Henry Luce, 1982-1983, Yale University.
Lecturer Andrew W. Mellon Annual Lecture Series Boston University, 92d St. Young Men’s Hebrew Association, YWHA Annual Lecturer Series, annual radio broadcast series, 1966-1986, advisory board Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies at Bar-Ilan University, 1994, advisory council Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, 1994. Chairman United States President's Commission on the Holocaust, 1979-1980, United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1980-1986. Honorary chairman Holocaust Studies Center of Bronx High School Science, National Jewish Resource Center, New York City.
Honorary council Vancouver Holocaust Center Society, since 1992, Center Christian-Jewish Understanding, Sacred Heart University, American Friends of Ghetto Fighter's House. Co-chairman Children of Chernobyl/Children at Heart, since 1995. Steering committee The Balkan Institute, since 1996.
Member National honorary committee Darius Milhaud Society. Member council Ethic Accord Project on Ethic Relations, (honorary) American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, since 1996. Leadership council Tanenbsum Center Interreligious Understanding, since 1997.
Founder Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, 1987. Founding president Paris-based Universal Academy Cultures, 1993. President Comité Français Pour "Yad Vashem," American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, 1985, American Kurdish Information Network, 1997, advisory board, 1997.
Vice president International Rescue Committee, since 1985. Advisory board The Raoul Wallenberg Commission of United States, since 1981, Friends of LeChambon, 1982, Boston University Institute for Philosophy & Religion, 1986, Boston University Students for a Free Tibet, National Institute Against Prejudice & Violence, International Center in New York, since 1986, Friends of Akim United States of America, 1991, Sholom Aleichem Memorial Foundation, National Jewish Law Students Association, since 1995, AmeriCares, 1995, React Take Action Awards, since 1996, No Greater Love, since 1996, Institute Study of Violence, since 1996, Global Lawyers and Physicians: Working Together for Human Rights, 1997. International advisory board Elmhurst College Holocaust Education Project, since 1996.
American board advisory The Moscow Center. Advisory council United States Committee Refugees, since 1996, National Endowmet for Democracy, since 1996. Helsinki advisory committee Human Rights Watch.
Board governors Haifa University, (member emeritus) Tel Aviv University since 1976, Massuah - Institute Study of Holocaust, Israel. Board directors National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center, Humanitas, American Associates Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Mutual of America, France Libertés. Honorary director HIAS.
Board trustees Annenberg Research Institute, 1983-1989, American Journal World Service, since 1985, Haifa University, Tel-Aviv University, Yeshiva University, since 1977, American Jewish Heritage Center, Museum Jewish Heritage, New York. Patron International Peace University, Berlin, since 1995. Colleague Cathedral St. John the Divine, since 1975.
Member jury Neustadt International Prize Literature, 1984. Member Task Force Apprehending Indicted War Criminals, since 1998.
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Founder National Jewish Center Learning & Leadership, 1974. Chairman advisory board World Union Jewish Students. Co-founder, board directors Elie Wiesel Foundation Humanity, New York City, since 1986.
Fellow: American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy Arts & Sciences, Jewish Academy Arts & Sciences, Modern Language Association America (honorary). Member: Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, European Academy Arts, Science & Humanities, Royal Norwegian Society Sciences & Letters, Author's Guild, Writers Guild America, Amnesty International, Foreign Press Association (honorary life), Writers & Artists for Peace in Middle East, Albert Einstein Society (honorary), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Marion Erster, 1961. 1 child Shlomo Elisha 1 stepchild Jennifer.