Elie Wiesel (1928–2016)
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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928. In 1944, he and his family were deported along with other Jews to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. His mother and his younger sister died there. He loaded stones onto railway cars in a labor camp called Buna before being sent to näytä lisää Buchenwald, where his father died. He was liberated by the United States Third Army on April 11, 1945. After the war ended, he learned that his two older sisters had also survived. He was placed on a train of 400 orphans that was headed to France, where he was assigned to a home in Normandy under the care of a Jewish organization. He was educated at the Sorbonne and supported himself as a tutor, a Hebrew teacher and a translator. He started writing for the French newspaper L'Arche. In 1948, L'Arche sent him to Israel to report on that newly founded state. He also became the Paris correspondent for the daily Yediot Ahronot. In this capacity, he interviewed the novelist Francois Mauriac, who urged him to write about his war experiences. The result was La Nuit (Night). After the publication of Night, Wiesel became a writer, literary critic, and journalist. His other books include Dawn, The Accident, The Gates of the Forest, The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry, and Twilight. He received a numerous awards and honors for his literary work including the William and Janice Epstein Fiction Award in 1965, the Jewish Heritage Award in 1966, the Prix Medicis in 1969, and the Prix Livre-International in 1980. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his work in combating human cruelty and in advocating justice. He had a leading role in the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C. He died on July 2, 2016 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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A Passover Haggadah: As Commented Upon by Elie Wiesel and Illustrated by Mark Podwal (1993) 236 kappaletta
Wise Men and Their Tales: Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters (1754) — Tekijä — 151 kappaletta
Filled with Fire and Light: Portraits and Legends from the Bible, Talmud, and Hasidic World (2021) 23 kappaletta
Telling the Tale : A Tribute to Elie Wiesel on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday - Essays, Reflections, and Poems (1993) 9 kappaletta
The Power of Forgiveness — Tekijä — 3 kappaletta
Holocaust Memoir Digest: Night 2 kappaletta
Two Images, One Destiny 1 kappale
Nakts 1 kappale
Zalmen 1 kappale
La notte 1 kappale
Who's Who Among American High School Students 1993 1994 (Volume IX Illinois Wisconsin) (1994) 1 kappale
The accident 1 kappale
The Power of Forgiveness 1 kappale
රාත්රිය 1 kappale
Sha'are Haya'ar 1 kappale
A Song for Hope 1 kappale
Our Jewish Solitude 1 kappale
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL. 1 1 kappale
From Holocaust To Rebirth 1 kappale
Elie Wiesel Reading from His Works; The Gates of Forest; Night; The Song of the Dead; The Jews of Silence. (1988) 1 kappale
“An evening guest” 1 kappale
Barbara 1 kappale
Will Soviet Jewry survive? 1 kappale
Wiesel Eli 1 kappale
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL. 2 1 kappale
Home Before Dark 1 kappale
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL, 3 1 kappale
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL,4 1 kappale
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL,5 1 kappale
GREAT FIGURES OF THE BIBLE-VOL,6 1 kappale
Auschwitz and Treblinka: So much violence, so much indifference — Tekijä — 1 kappale
Esau and Jacob 1 kappale
La ville de la chance 1 kappale
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1 kappale
The accident 1 kappale
Associated Works
Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II (2003) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 108 kappaletta
The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (2007) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 91 kappaletta
With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Memories of the War Years in Hungary (1979) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 72 kappaletta
Speeches of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Orations Deserving of a Wider Audience (2018) — Kertoja, eräät painokset — 50 kappaletta
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (1995) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 48 kappaletta
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume III (1771) — Esipuhe — 23 kappaletta
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume I (1656) — Esipuhe — 23 kappaletta
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume II (1766) — Esipuhe — 21 kappaletta
Preventing Genocide: Practical Steps toward Early Detection and Effective Action (2008) — Esipuhe — 14 kappaletta
Das Iaşi-Pogrom, Juni–Juli 1941: Eine Fotodokumentation aus dem Holocaust in Rumänien (2015) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 10 kappaletta
A Life in Jewish Education: Essays in Honor of Louis L. Kaplan (Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture;, 4) (1997) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
Projekt Totentanz - memento mori Aspekte des Todes in der Kunst ; Dokumentation einer Ausstellung im Museum Bochum vom… (1998) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
Charlie Rose with Elie Wiesel; Amy Tan (November 9, 1995) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Wiesel, Eliezer
- Muut nimet
- A-7713
WIESEL, Élie
WIESEL, Elie
WIESEL, Eliezer - Syntymäaika
- 1928-09-30
- Kuolinaika
- 2016-07-02
- Hautapaikka
- Sharon Gardens Cemetery, Valhalla, New York, USA
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Romania (birth)
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- Romania
- Syntymäpaikka
- Sighet, Maramureş County, Romania
Sighet, Romania - Kuolinpaikka
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Hungary
Auschwitz, Poland
Buchenwald, Germany
Paris, France
Israel
New York, New York, USA (näytä kaikki 7)
Sighet, Romania (birth) - Koulutus
- University of Paris
- Ammatit
- journalist
writer
professor
novelist
author
memoirist (näytä kaikki 8)
Holocaust survivor
translator - Suhteet
- Wiesel, Marion (wife)
Bloch, Sam E. (colleague) - Organisaatiot
- American Academy of Arts and Letters( [1996])
Boston University
United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Nobel Peace Prize (1986)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1992)
Congressional Gold Medal (1984)
Medal of Liberty (1986)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)
Norman Mailer Prize (2011) (näytä kaikki 8)
National Humanities Medal (2009)
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2012) - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Elie Wiesel was born to a Jewish family in the small town of Sighet in northern Transylvania, then part of Hungary, now Romania. He was still a teenager when he was taken from his home and deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald. His memoirs of that experience are unforgettably recorded in NIGHT, which became a worldwide bestseller. Elie Wiesel was Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and founding chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
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Night Tekijä: Elie Wiesel
don't know how to rate this because it is so horrifying...I read it twice for school and both times it was utterly devastating and terrifying. It is an incredibly important book that everyone should read. But no one, I repeat, NO ONE, should ever have to read this alone.
I'm sure the book is brilliant, but there is a lot I don't understand, especially the ending.
A quote I liked, which is followed by mention of Elisha ben Avuya and the the story of the four who entered the garden:
" ... Of the roads that lead to truth there is never more than one. For each man there is only one. In that sense the atheist and the mystic are alike: they both proceed directly to the goal without turning aside. At the goal, of course, they meet. But if their paths cross on the way, they run the risk of canceling each other out. Do you understand, my boy? You can't be inside and outside at the same time. Man is too weak, his imagination too poor, to enter the garden and yet remain beyond the wall. ..."… (lisätietoja)
A quote I liked, which is followed by mention of Elisha ben Avuya and the the story of the four who entered the garden:
" ... Of the roads that lead to truth there is never more than one. For each man there is only one. In that sense the atheist and the mystic are alike: they both proceed directly to the goal without turning aside. At the goal, of course, they meet. But if their paths cross on the way, they run the risk of canceling each other out. Do you understand, my boy? You can't be inside and outside at the same time. Man is too weak, his imagination too poor, to enter the garden and yet remain beyond the wall. ..."… (lisätietoja)
I am struggling to review this book as I am quite conflicted. I didn't find it terribly impactful, yet to critic it almost feels sacrilege given its subject matter.
I appreciate what a horrific time and memory this must be for the author, and I give a lot of grace to the fact that it is his 15-year-old perspective written when he was quite some years older. That being said, for all the conversation (read hype) surrounding Night, I expected so much more; that is on me.
As someone who has delved quite deep into this part of history, I feel there are far more detailed, perhaps even accurately portrayed writings available that will leave the reader with a better understanding of the suffering that occurred during the Holocaust. That being said, this book has its place, it just isn't the homerun read that it has been made out to be -- feels watered down.
In learning more about the book and its apparent numerous renditions, that is likely what has occurred, the 800 original score has been whittled down through each language translation. It now is just over 100 pages for us English readers. Too bad, really, as I think we could have taken away much more and the effect could have been far more powerful had the pages remained.
As with all books on the Holocaust, this book deserves to be read, it may strike that cord necessary for the reader to see people and the world differently so that they stand up as needed to those being wrongly persecuted.… (lisätietoja)
I appreciate what a horrific time and memory this must be for the author, and I give a lot of grace to the fact that it is his 15-year-old perspective written when he was quite some years older. That being said, for all the conversation (read hype) surrounding Night, I expected so much more; that is on me.
As someone who has delved quite deep into this part of history, I feel there are far more detailed, perhaps even accurately portrayed writings available that will leave the reader with a better understanding of the suffering that occurred during the Holocaust. That being said, this book has its place, it just isn't the homerun read that it has been made out to be -- feels watered down.
In learning more about the book and its apparent numerous renditions, that is likely what has occurred, the 800 original score has been whittled down through each language translation. It now is just over 100 pages for us English readers. Too bad, really, as I think we could have taken away much more and the effect could have been far more powerful had the pages remained.
As with all books on the Holocaust, this book deserves to be read, it may strike that cord necessary for the reader to see people and the world differently so that they stand up as needed to those being wrongly persecuted.… (lisätietoja)
Eliezer was 15 years old when he, his sister and his parents were taken prisoner by the Nazis and deported from their home in Sighet, Transylvania, for the crime of being Jewish. Upon arrival to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, Eliezer and his father were separated from Eliezer’s mother and sister, never to see them again. To survive the most inhumane conditions imaginable and to avoid immediate death, Eliezer and his father desperately tried to keep up their strength, thereby demonstrating to the Nazis their usefulness in their ability to work. Each day brought new horrors, torture, starvation, exposure, exhaustion, and illness. Constantly, death hovered over them and the other prisoners. Their challenge: how to avoid the physical and emotional damage that hastened that almost certain death.
The author does a stunning job of presenting the difficult subject of the Holocaust. He follows a father and son as they move from a religiously-observant life in Transylvania to the agonizingly slow and painful experience of deportation and imprisonment in a series of concentration camps. To make this story more acceptable, the author makes it neither long nor frightfully graphic. It presents in clear detail the movements and emotions of one young man caught in an unreal world and how he suffers in his attempt to survive. What causes the greatest sadness and horror to the reader is the slow realization of the degree to which man can inflict physical and emotional pain on another human being with little or no remorse. It is a difficult lesson but one which needs to be taught, understood, and remembered by all people. Elie Wiesel begins this terrible education with Night.… (lisätietoja)
The author does a stunning job of presenting the difficult subject of the Holocaust. He follows a father and son as they move from a religiously-observant life in Transylvania to the agonizingly slow and painful experience of deportation and imprisonment in a series of concentration camps. To make this story more acceptable, the author makes it neither long nor frightfully graphic. It presents in clear detail the movements and emotions of one young man caught in an unreal world and how he suffers in his attempt to survive. What causes the greatest sadness and horror to the reader is the slow realization of the degree to which man can inflict physical and emotional pain on another human being with little or no remorse. It is a difficult lesson but one which needs to be taught, understood, and remembered by all people. Elie Wiesel begins this terrible education with Night.… (lisätietoja)
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