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Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocke
Keywords: holocaust, reflections, darkness
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2002-10-22
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0805241825
ISBN-13: 9780805241822

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 acquiescen

Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: forgotten
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1995-01-31
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0805210199
ISBN-13: 9780805210194

A profoundly moving novel about a Holocaust survivor’s struggle to remember both the heroic and the shameful events of his past, and about his American-born son’s need to assimilate his father’s life into his own. "A book of shattering force that offers a message of urgency to a world under the spell of trivia and the tyranny of amnesia."--Chicago Tribune Book World.

Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: encounters, jewish, rashi
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-08-11
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0805242546
ISBN-13: 9780805242546

From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages. Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged by outbursts of anti-Semitism and decimated by the Crusades. The incomparable scholar Rashi, whose phrase-by-phrase explication of the oral law has been included in every printing of the Talmud since the fifteenth century, was also a spiritual and religious lead

Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: club, book, oprah, night
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2006-01-16
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0374500010
ISBN-13: 9780374500016

Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Weisel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in the substantive new preface, Elie Wiesel reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a li

Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: memoirs, sea, rivers
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1996-10-22
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0805210288
ISBN-13: 9780805210286

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.

Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: dance, desire, mad
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-02-17
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0307266508
ISBN-13: 9780307266507

From Elie Wiesel, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of our fiercest moral voices, a provocative and deeply thoughtful new novel about a life shaped by the worst horrors of the twentieth century and one man’s attempt to reclaim happiness.Doriel, a European expatriate living in New York, suffers from a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a member of the Resistance, survived World War II only to die in an accident, together with his father, soon after. Doriel was a child during the war, and his knowledge of the Holocaust is largely limited to what he finds in movies,

Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: dawn
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2006-03-21
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0809037726
ISBN-13: 9780809037728

“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
  
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